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Territorial Expansion

Lousiana Purchase

- Thomas Jefferson and the United States purchased 2 million sq km of land, which nearly doubled the size of the United States.- The United States paid what is now worth 219 million dollars in today's currency.- On Saturday April 30, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed by Robert Livingston, James Monroe, and Barbé Marbois in Paris. Jefferson announced the treaty to the American people on July 4.

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The Missouri Compromise

- Passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery side and the abolitionist side- Prohibitted slavery in the Lousiana Purchase north of the 36, 30 parallel- Permitted slavery in Missouri and the Arkansas Territory- Maine admitted as a free state

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Texas

- Texas Revolution in 1835, Texans created own government- Convention of 1836 saw Texas as an independent Republic.- James Polk admits Texas to the United States on December 29, 1845- Raised issue over whether or not slavery would be permitted in this new state.

http://www.howtoenjoy.co.uk/north_america_caribbean/usa/southwestern_states/texas/texas_map.htm

The War with Mexico

- Fought in 1846 to 1848- Began with a Mexican attack on troops near Texas after annexation of Texas- Ended with Treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo February 2nd, 1848- A majority of those who foughtwere slaveowners who desirednew land in order to spread slavery into.

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54o 40' or Fight

• Oregon Territory covered modern day Oregon, Idaho, and Washington.

• This territory was claimed by both Britain and the US.• Oregon Territory was split  into a joint occupation.• Settlers moved west and the

    British were greatly outnumbered    (6 to 1)• James Polk declared that Britain

    leave within one year, leading to     war

Gadsden Purchase• The Gadsden Purchase bought a 29,670-square-mile region that is

in present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.•  It was purchased while Franklin Pierce was in office•  Franklin Pierce bought this to be the Southern route for the

Transcontinental Railroad•  This region was bought for $10 million which is equal to around

$243,000,000 today.

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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

-The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.-The outcome was the gaining of New Mexico and California.- The United States gaining of this land was called the Mexican Cession becauseMexico ceded these lands to the United States.

What we would have done

    Our group would have expanded as far as possible yet been able to keep people in all the territories so other countries wouldn't have tried to re-conquer these territories.

Laws/Treaties and Presidents' decisions on Territory expansion

- Missouri Compromise- Proclaimed Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state, signed by John W. Taylor- Louisiana Purchase- France- signed by Thomas Jefferson- Gadsden Purchase- Know as "Sale of La Mesilla" was in the southern, most extreme part of NM and AZ to set territorial rights by president Franklin Pierce.  - Oregon- England- President James Polk had a slogan 54o 40' or fight, to eventually win this land from Britian.- Mexican American War- Mexico- James Polk from 1845-1849 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo settled this dispute and was the last significant treaty that shaped the US to what it's like still today.

Impact on the Nation

• Divided the Nation into Northern and Southern states• These two sides constantly fought over whether or not new states

in the west would be slave states• Territorial Expansion made the United States a much larger

country and the population grew rapidly

How Territorial Expansion Provoked The Civil War- The main conflict over territorial expansion westward was the issue of the new territories being a free or slave.- Abolitionist wanted the new territories to be free.- The people of the South wanted the new western territories to be slave states.- When Abraham Lincoln  ran for president his position on slavery was that it should not expand west.  - The issue of conflict of the new territories being free or slave states in combination with Abraham Lincoln's being elected and his view on slavery not being expanded into the west, is what caused the nation to become slip during western expansion. 

What events or decisions regarding your issue could have been prevented and thus slowed or stopped the War?• If the Louisiana Purchase had never happened then the Civil

War may have slowed down or stopped.• Many states that were bought in the Louisiana Purchase

caused many issues on whether those states would be free or slave states.

• Also, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo helped cause the Civil War because there were more debates on whether the states in this region should be free or slave states.

Example to a modern day issue

Most recent Issue would be in the 1970's with the city of Rio Rico, Texas.  This city was ceded to Mexico by the Treaty of 1970.  The U.S. didn't fully hand it over to the Mexcian's till 1977, and this was added to Mexico's territory as "Tamaulipas". It represents territorial expansion because it is thegaining of a territory to expand the boundaries oftheir nation.

Video

http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/deeprun/metcalf_g/video/semester%20project.wmv 

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Bibliography Cont.

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