growth and division

Growth and Division

Ch 2.2

Thursday February 9, 2012

• Daily goal: Understand how the Missouri Compromise maintained the peace.

• Notes Analysis• Use your Ch 2.1 notes to answer the following

question.• Explain how Industrialization lead to labor

unions and immigration. Make the connection between immigration and nativism.

Notes Analysis Sample

• The Industrialization Revolution created many low paying, unskilled jobs. In response many workers began to form unions for better pay. Many of the jobs were filled by immigrants who came from Ireland, but were discriminated against by people who opposed immigration and supported nativism.

Friday, February 10, 2012

• Daily goal: Understand who the leader of the Women’s movement was and what document they signed. Understand how Manifest destiny influenced Westward Expansion.

• Think About it…• Do you believe that America today thinks it is

entitled to control the world?

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MANIFEST DESTINY LED TO WAR WITH MEXICO AND THE OREGON TERRITORY BECOMING PART OF THE U.S.

ESSENTIALLY MANIFEST DESTINY WAS THE BELIEF THAT THE U.S. HAD A GOD GIVEN MISSION TO SPREAD ITS CIVILIZATION BY CONQUEST TO THE ENTIRE WESTERN HEMISPHERE NO MATTER WHO IT HARMED.

From sea to shining sea

• Manifest Destiny-belief America was bound to reach the Pacific.

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State year admitted total slave states total free statesOhio 1803 9

Louisiana 1812 9Indiana 1816 10

Mississippi 1817 10Illinois 1818 11

Alabama 1819 11Maine 1820 12

Missouri 1821 12Arkansas 1836 13Michigan 1837 13Florida 1845 14Texas 1845 15Iowa 1846 14

Wisconsin 1848 15California 1850 16

Minnesota 1858 17Oregon 1859 18Kansas 1861 19

EXPANSION CREATED BOTH NEW FREE AND NEW SLAVE STATES. IT WAS COMMONLY AGREED THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA IF NEW STATES DID NOT

UPSET THE BALANCE BETWEEN EXISTING FREE AND SLAVE STATES. THE PROPOSED ADMISSION OF MISSOURI IN 1819 AS A SLAVE STATE THREATENED TO UPSET THIS BALANCE. (FROM 11 SLAVE AND 11 FREE TO 12 SLAVE AND 11

FREE)

11 free states11 slave states1819

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MISSOURI COMPROMISE, 1820THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE

ALLOWED MISSOURI TO ENTER THE

UNION AS A SLAVE STATE WITH THE

PROVISION THAT NO MORE SLAVE STATES

COULD COME IN ABOVE THE 30* LATITUDE LINE.

MISSOURI COMPROMISE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE PAPERS

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RESULTS OF MISSOURI COMPROMISE

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State year admitted total slave states total free statesOhio 1803 9

Louisiana 1812 9Indiana 1816 10

Mississippi 1817 10Illinois 1818 11

Alabama 1819 11Maine 1820 12

Missouri 1821 12Arkansas 1836 13Michigan 1837 13Florida 1845 14Texas 1845 15Iowa 1846 14

Wisconsin 1848 15California 1850 16

Minnesota 1858 17Oregon 1859 18Kansas 1861 19

FREE STATE OR SLAVE STATE: THE NUMBERS GAME FOR SENATORS. THE NORTH HAD A LARGER POPULATION WHICH MEANT THEY WOULD HAVE MORE REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THE SOUTH NEEDED SLAVE STATES TO KEEP THE NUMBER OF SENATORS

(EACH STATE RECEIVED TWO) EVEN.

Missouri Compromise

• Maintained the balance between the free and slave states temporarily.

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NATIVE AMERICAN REMOVAL, 1830sTHE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT WAS

PASSED MAY 1830 AFTER HEATED AND BITTER ARGUMENTS IN

CONGRESS. THIS LAW MOVED MOST OF THE NATIONS OF TRIBES IN THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE

UNITED STATES INTO “INDIAN COUNTRY”, WHICH TODAY IS

OKLAHOMA. THE MOST TRAGIC REMOVAL INVOLVED THE

CHEROKEE WHO TRIED TO FIGHT IT IN COURT, HOWEVER THEY

WERE FORCED THE DEPART THEIR LAND. THOUSANDS DIED ON THE LONG JOURNEY FROM WEATHER, STARVATION, AND ILLNESS. THAT

JOURNEY IS REMEMBERED AS THE TRAIL OF TEARS.

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Alabama Indian Tribes

Cherokee Creek

Choctaw Chickasaw

Kentucky Indian Tribes

Cherokee Delaware Iroquois Shawnee

Mississippi Indian TribesNatchez

Chickasaw Choctaw

Tennessee Indian TribesMound Builders

Cherokee Chickasaw

Chickamauga

Trail of Tears

• The Indian removal act forced Native Americans off their land. Thousands died and lost everything.

2nd Great Awakening

• Early 19th century (1800s) movement to revive Americans’ commitment to religion.

• Anti-slavery movement.

Women’s Movement

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention which began the Women’s movement.

• Seneca Falls Declaration said “all men and women are created equal.”

• What other document uses similar wording?

Abolitionist Movement

• Movement called for immediate end to Slavery.

• Leaders wanted emancipation (to free) for the slaves.

• Fredrick Douglas an escaped slave helped lead the movement.