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Learning Log

Tentative Schedule: Week of April 22 nd - Tuesday- PPT w notes and AJ conferences Wednesday- PPT w notes, finish conf. Thursday- PPT w notes Friday- Heads-up, courts due April 28 th - Monday- dress rehearsal Tuesday- courts Wednesday- Recap on slavery Thursday- Civil War

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Learning Log

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  1. Tentative Schedule: • Week of April 22nd- • Tuesday- PPT w notes and AJ conferences • Wednesday- PPT w notes, finish conf. • Thursday- PPT w notes • Friday- Heads-up, courts due • April 28th- • Monday- dress rehearsal • Tuesday- courts • Wednesday- Recap on slavery • Thursday- Civil War • Friday- Civil War Learning Log Those selected for the Presidential Series- did you turn in your permission slips? Leaving @ 4:20- need to be dressed up!

  2. Westward Expansion • Northwest Ordinance • Manifest Destiny- Americans believed it was their right to expand their country and government from the Atlantic to the Pacific • Annex- add territory to country • Do new states have slaves? • California Gold Rush, 1849 • By mid-1850s, US annexes Cali, Texas, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah and Washington

  3. Territory of Texas • Texas • Produce cotton • “Remember the Alamo”; attack by Mexican government • Congressman Davy Crockett murdered • Southerners- another slave state, good for economy • Northerners- did not want another slave state • Both- feared war with Mexico, so recognized Texas a independent but did not annex the territory

  4. California • Part of Mexico, but hard to govern because of distance • Geography: • Warm sun • Rich soil • Fur trade • Cattle • 1830s, first explored • 1849, Gold Rush

  5. Reports of “great” lands, esp from Freemont Reports • Trail to Oregon Territory, spurred from trail to Cali • Wagon trains left every spring from Independence, Missouri • Women travel, families too • Mormons travel to Utah Oregon Trail • Dangers: • Snow (Rockies and Sierra, Nevada) • Wagons breakdown • Oxen/ horses die • Stampedes • Rapid rivers • Fires • Heat/ dry • Snakebites • Disease • Starvation • Hopes: • Money • Gold • Fur • Freely practice religion

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  7. Mexican- American War: 1846- 1848 • President James K. Polk • US annexes Texas • Dispute over Texas- Mexico border • Mexicans fire on US soldiers thought to be on their land • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo- US pays $15 million for Mexican Cession

  8. Agriculture v Industry • Supply and demand, or demand and supply? • Trade goods— Rice, sugar, wheat, cotton, whales, cattle, textiles, iron, etc. • Changes--- • Economy: • Mass production • N= Industry, S= agriculture, slaves? • Eli Whitney’s cotton gin • Communication: • Morse Code • Telegraph • US postal service • Transportation: • Steamboats • “trails” become unofficial highways linking states • Railroad- used for travel and TRADE • Huge in north, Great Lakes area, because of industry Industrial Revolution

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