Westward Expansion Flashcards
Manifest Destiny
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States.Spouse: Martha Jefferson (m. 1772–1782)
Party: Democratic-Republican Party
Oregon Territory
The Territory of Oregon encompassed the segments of present-day Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming and Montana as well as parts of British Columbia which is now a Canadian province.The region became known for its fur-trade and the British Hudson’s Bay Company dominated the market. Since the fur-trade that developed in the region was extremely lucrative, many countries wanted to claim the land for themselves.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a unitary sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.Government: Unitary state, Semi-presidential system, Constitutional republic
spain-Flordia and james monroe
James Monroe was suspected of helping Jackson buy flordia from spain
Lewis and Clark
travelled across North America from 1804 to 1806, going up the Missouri River and over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast. They drew maps and gathered information about the Native American people who lived there.
Manifest Destiny
the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.Manifest Destiny was significant to the expansion of the United States in the 19th century. It was the primary force that caused the United States to expand west across North America. To Americans, expansion offered self-advancement, self-sufficiency, income and freedom.
Western Territory
any land west of the mississipi river, several settlers wanted to settle there due to rich farmland, fur trade, and oprotunity for and new life and land.
travel issues with moving west
terrain was a big issue not to mention disease and starvation
mississippi river-settlement
key in trade and water route citys along river included indepence, misouri.
New orleans
Through Pinckney’s Treaty signed on October 27, 1795, Spain granted the United States “Right of Deposit” in New Orleans, allowing Americans to use the city’s port facilities.
napoleon and france
Napoleon had also re-obtained the North American province of Louisiana from Spain in 1800. However, the loss of Haiti made Louisiana strategically undesirable, and with war again on the horizon with Great Britain, Napoleon was willing to agree to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
Louisiana and jefferson controversy
raised controversial issues that might lead to the disunion of the United States. Jefferson was troubled by the inconsistency, but in the end decided that the Constitution’s treaty-making provisions allowed him room to act. Most of the Senate agreed and the LOUISIANA PURCHASE easily passed 26 to 6.
John Gast-Painting
conveys a vivid sense of the passage of time as well as of the inevitability of technological progress. “In her right hand she carries a book—common school—the emblem of education and the testimonial of our national enlightenment, while with the left hand she unfolds and stretches the slender wires of the telegraph, that are to flash intelligence throughout the land.” The Indians flee from progress, unable to adjust to the shifting tides of history. The painting hints at the past, lays out a fantastic version of an evolving present, and finally lays out a vision of the future. A static picture conveys a dynamic story.
Indian Removal-Why and Where to
The Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of progress. Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory. They moved them into land plots west of the mssissippi.
Marcus Whitman and Massacre
On November 29, 1847, a small group of Cayuse Indians attack the Whitman Mission near Walla Walla in what will become known as the Whitman Massacre. Dr. Marcus Whitman (1802-1847), his wife Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (1808-1847), nine other men, and two teenage boys are killed during several days of bloodshed, most of them on the first day. Another man escapes to Fort Walla Walla but is believed to have drowned shortly thereafter; he is counted as a 14th victim. About 50 survivors are held hostage for a month and then ransomed by the Hudson’s Bay Company.
