What factors promote territorial expansion?
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Bellwork……True or False?
At the time Thomas Jefferson was living…
There were woolly mammoths roaming the West.
there was a tribe of blue-eyed Indians living in the West who spoke Welsh, the
language of people from Wales, a region on the west coast of the island of Great
Britain.
there was a river or series of connected rivers, starting at the Mississippi, that
crossed the western mountains and reached the Pacific Ocean.
the Blue Ridge Mountains were taller than the Rocky Mountains.
the West had many erupting volcanoes.
unicorns could be found in the West.
there were mountains in the West made of undissolved salt.
some beavers in the West were seven feet tall.
buffaloes were friendly and had slim waists.
Peruvian llamas roamed the West.
Outline
1783 Treaty of Paris 1899 – 1901 Boxer Rebellion
1785 Land Ordinance 1899 – 1902 Philippine American War
1787 North West Ordinance 1899 Open Door Note/Policy
1862 Homestead Act 1901 Platt Amendment
Louisiana Purchase 1903 Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty
1823 Monroe Doctrine 1904 Roosevelt Corollary
1846-1848 Mexican/American War 1913 – 1914 Carranza & Villa Civil War
1846 Panama Independence 1914 Tampico Affair
1848 Oregon Territory 1915 – 1934 U.S. Military Intervention in Haiti
1862 – 1867 French Occupation of Mexico 1916 Jones Act
1867 Seward’s Folly (Purchase of Alaska) 1916 Villa’s raid on New Mexico
1885 Josiah Strong Our Country 1933 – 1944 Good Neighbor Policy
1887 Bayonet Constitution 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties
1890 A.T. Mahan Sea Power
1895 – 1899 Venezuela Border Dispute
1898 Annexation of Hawaii
1898 Spanish American War
1898 Treaty of Paris
What will we be learning this unit?
From 1791 (Washington elected as President) to 1860 (Lincoln elected)
the United States expanded to the boundaries of today’s 48 contiguous
states
4 wars fought
15 presidents
Country increased in size
Established & strengthened the federal court system
Saw the beginnings & increase of political parties
1st & 2nd National Banks
Economics “Panics” & depressions
Abolition movement
Essential Question:
How has territorial expansion been
justified?
Acquisition of resources
Spread of religion
Racial Supremacy
What factors promote territorial expansion?
Treaty of Paris
Ended the Revolutionary War
Granted the United States independence
from England
America gained
possession of land btw Appalachian
Mtns & Mississippi River
Possession of land from the Great
Lakes to the Florida Boundary
This land formed 9 additional states
Declared that the Americans should pay
any debts owed to the British
Land Ordinance of 1785
By 1785, Congress needed to set up
an orderly system for settling the
Northwest Territory.
The ordinance called for the land to
be surveyed and divided into
townships by base line and range
line.
Congress planned to sell sections to
settlers for $640 each.
One section in every township was
to be set aside to support public
schools.
It also allotted a section for
purpose of religion and no more
than two townships for a
University.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
This ordinance set up a government (a governor, a
secretary, and 3 judges) for the Northwest Territory
and allowed the region to be divided into separate
territories.
Once a territory had a population of 60,000 free
citizens, it could petition Congress to become a
state.
set up a way for new states to be admitted to the United
States.
Northwest territory became five states: Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Bellwork……True or False?
At the time Thomas Jefferson was living…
There were woolly mammoths roaming the West.
there was a tribe of blue-eyed Indians living in the West who spoke Welsh, the
language of people from Wales, a region on the west coast of the island of Great
Britain.
there was a river or series of connected rivers, starting at the Mississippi, that
crossed the western mountains and reached the Pacific Ocean.
the Blue Ridge Mountains were taller than the Rocky Mountains.
the West had many erupting volcanoes.
unicorns could be found in the West.
there were mountains in the West made of undissolved salt.
some beavers in the West were seven feet tall.
buffaloes were friendly and had slim waists.
Peruvian llamas roamed the West.
Lewis & Clark
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