19th Century Manifest Destiny

Western Expansion

8-4 Expansion of the United States

Louisiana PurchaseHiring of Lewis & Clark for an expedition of

lands

President Thomas Jefferson

Sacajawea

Together theymap out theWest and keepa journal of plants, animalsand tribes

Lewis and Clark hire an Indian guide

Wagon trainsFrom Missourito the west!From the plains ofKansas andOklahoma to theRocky MountainsAnd the Sierras… Towns, ranches &Homesteads crop up

Expansion and settling of the west

The Oregon Trail…6 months to a year!Tough travel in a car…brutal in a wagon

The Mormon Trail…Fleeing persecution,The new Christian faith, the LatterDay Saints, settle muchof the Utah and Idahoterritories

Bad weather, hostile natives, lack of food and water in some areas, steep terrain

Transcontinental RailroadRailroads shortenthe travel time tothe west

Completed May 10, 1869

A key group of immigrants, the Chinese help build the railroad

They would move on to Gold Mine, settle the land and become Americans!

Discovered at Sutter’s Mill, California 1849

GOLD!!!!

Thousands rush west to find their fortunes!

Mining camps crop up from the Dakotas to San Francisco

Deadwood!

Virginia City!

Tombstone

Bodie

Many find despair and hardship…

Gold Rush Prostitutes

Calamity Jane

Wild Bill Hickok

Meanwhile back East….

The abolitionist movementTo end slavery heats up!

Bought and sold, chaseddown like criminals…

http://www.history.com/topics/bleeding-kansas/videos#america-divided

Inventory of slaves

Private Gordon,Former Slave

Slave Row Families

Abraham Lincoln’s election sparks the seceding of the South from the U.S. and the Civil War!

The Battle over

slavery would last

4 long years

North and South fight…Brother against brother, former friends against one another…

Abraham Lincoln

Blue (north) and Gray(south)

Jefferson Davis

Civil War leaves the country in destruction and devastation

Experts estimate the total U.S. deaths during the Civil War reached 860,000that is more than The Revolutionary War, WW 1, WW2 and Vietnam combined!

Emancipation!

1863 The Slaves are Freed

1965 Lee Surrenders, Union restored!

Shortly after, Lincoln is assassinated!

Soldiers leave the field for the West…

The land is already inhabited….

From Wild West saloons to the battle of the Little Big Horn…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKj5LmO3HRU

http://www.history.com/videos/the-buffalo-and-native-americans#the-buffalo-and-native-americans

Native Americans and the Buffalo

Wyatt Earp Meets Doc Holliday

The West is won…and lost. The U.S. expands from sea to shining sea.

A Blair compilation!Music by Jason Aldean 1994

Go back to slides 15 & 25 and watch the video clips!

ZE END!