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Territorial and Economic Expansion

Explore the compelling era of Manifest Destiny from 1830-1860, a period of rapid territorial and economic growth in the United States driven by a divine mission to spread civilization. Learn about the key factors, figures, conflicts, and consequences that shaped this ambitious expansionist ideology.

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Territorial and Economic Expansion

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  1. Territorial and Economic Expansion Manifest Destiny 1830-1860

  2. Manifest Destiny “Away, away with all these cobweb tissues of the rights of discovery, exploration and settlement…[The American 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!… -John L. O’Sullivan

  3. John O’Sullivan • Journalist and founder/editor of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review • Coins the term "manifest destiny" to encourage the spirit of expansionism

  4. Manifest Destiny Defined • Manifest Destiny: popular belief that the US had a divine mission to extend its power and civilization across N. America • Enthusiasm for expansion…why? • Nationalism, population increase, economic development, technological advances, reform • Late on: sectionalism over slavery

  5. Was Expansion Inevitable? • Treaty of Paris 1783 Lands from Britain • Louisiana Purchase & Lewis/Clark Expedition • War of 1812 • Monroe Doctrine • Adams Onis Treaty • Trail of Tears • Missouri Compromise

  6. Other Factors to Push Expansion • INFRASTRUCTURE ie roads, canals, etc • Cumberland/National Road • Erie Canal • INNOVATIONS ie steamboat, railroad

  7. New Perspective: Indian Removal But who’s land is it?

  8. History of Abuse • British arrive: 13 colonies, Indians losing land • Pre-Revolutionary War: French & Indian war, fighting with British in Rev. War • New U.S. Government: fought to be recognized as a sovereign nation • 1778 to 1871: 400+ treaties • Today: “Trail of Broken Treaties”

  9. Jefferson, Jan. 1803 “The Indian tribes residing within the limits of the U.S. have for a considerable time been growing more & more uneasy at the constant diminution of the territory they occupy…In order peaceably to counteract this policy of theirs, two measures are deemed expedient. First, to encourage them to abandon hunting, to apply to the raising stock, to agriculture and domestic manufacture; Second to multiply trading houses among them & place within their reach those things which will contribute more to their domestic comfort.”

  10. Indian Removal Act • President Jackson pushes Congress to force Indians to move west of the Mississippi • Congress established Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) as the new Indian homeland • US govt creates Bureau of Indian Affairs

  11. John C. Calhoun-Sect. of War “One of the greatest evils to which they (Indians) are subject is the incessant (constant) pressure of our population.” • According to John C. Calhoun, why is the US government forcing the Native Americans to move off of their homelands? • What is wrong with this statement?

  12. Cherokee Indians/5 Civ. Tribes • Lived peacefully in the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia and Tennessee • Adopted culture of whites - wrote and spoke English • Had own written language and newspaper • Based their government on the U.S. Constitution

  13. Cherokee Sue For Land • Cherokee sued the government of Georgia for taking their land • Worcester vs. Georgia - Supreme Court rules Georgia’s actions are illegal and that the Cherokee can stay

  14. President Andrew Jackson “Chief Justice John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it.” • What is wrong with this statement?

  15. Trail of Tears • Georgia govt. smashes in Cherokee printing press • US troops move 18,000 Cherokee at gunpoint 800 miles from 1838-1839 • 25% of Cherokee died - most elderly and children

  16. Primary Sourcing • Break into PAIRS (That means 2) • Address the following documents as a group-answer the “Focus Questions” • 45 Minutes

  17. Reservations • US government forced Native American tribes to live in certain areas called Indian Reservations Not the best land; Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 • In exchange for living on the reservation, tribes were often • paid some money called an annuity. • The annuities were usually not very much money • Government did not always pay them on time • Native Americans usually had to spend their money buying food and supplies from white American traders • Dawes Act of 1887-parcels of land

  18. “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” • Assimilation: process of one group of people being "absorbed" into another's culture • Goalof assimilation policy: for all Native Americans to live & behave like white Americans • Toolsto achieve assimilation: • Boarding schools for Native • American children • Killing bison (their main food source) • Missionaries to introduce Christianity

  19. TREATIES!...that don’t work • Omaha Creek • Kansas Muscogee • Lakota Navajo • Pawnee Mohawk • Arapaho Oto/Missouri • Cheyenne Shawnee • Banncock Seminole • Sioux Witchetaw • http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/tocy1.htm#Y1%20

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