What time period featured new technology and economic change?

Who invented the Cotton Gin and interchangeable parts?

How did the Industrial Revolution impact both the northern and southern United States? How did it impact western territories?

1. Write down 5 details that stand out to you in this painting.

2. What is the message of this painting?

Opening:

  John L O’Sullivan, newspaper editor

  “Away, away with all these cobweb tissues of rights of discovery, exploration, settlement, contiguity….Our claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federative self government entrusted to us….Oregon can never be to England anything but a mere hunting ground for furs and peltries…In our hands it must fast fill in with a population destined to establish a noble young empire…”

 

Now that more land in the western areas of the continent belonged to America (a la the Louisiana Purchase), some of those areas were populated enough and were ready to become a state

Who remembers what law (first established in the Articles of Confederation) established the procedure for adding new states into the Union?

The idea that God wanted the Americans to settle the west

Several inventions, such as the mechanical reaper and the steel plow, opened up the Great Plains to farmers

Between 1800 and 1860, the United States more than doubled in size, and the number of states expanded from 16 to 33.

Americans headed west for 3 main reason: 1 - the desire to own their own land (Homestead Act) 2- the discovery of gold and other valuable resources

(California Gold Rush) 3- the belief that the US was supposed to stretch

across North America (Manifest Destiny)

Mormons: (a religious group) Settled Utah in hopes of finding religious freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=related (watch only 1st 4 min..the rest is music)

In the 1820s, Americans began to settle in Texas, which was owned by Mexico, conflicts would lead to a war with Mexico

1800: 387,000 American settlers beyond Appalachian Mtns.

1820: 2.4 million settlers

What does Manifest Destiny mean?

•God had given Americans the right to settle from coast to coast on the American Continent