Westward Expansion

1. New Territories

1.1. Louisian Purchase

1.2. Florida

1.2.1. treaty with Spain

1.3. Texas

1.3.1. Indepedent republic

1.4. Oregon

1.4.1. split with Great Britian

1.5. California

1.5.1. war with Mexico

2. New Technologies

2.1. reaper

2.1.1. Cyrus McCormick and Jo Anderson

2.2. cotton gin

2.2.1. Eli Whitney

2.3. steamboats

2.3.1. improved by Robert Fulton

2.4. steam locomotives

3. Entrepreneur

3.1. Someone who gathers resources to sell a new product

4. Ablitionists

4.1. Harriet Tubman

4.2. William Lloyd Garrison

4.2.1. Wrote a Newpaper - Liberator

4.3. Frederick Douglass

4.3.1. wrote the newspaper the North Star

5. Manafest Destiny

5.1. belief that it was good for the country and the right of the country to expand

6. Reasons to move west

6.1. population growth in the west

6.1.1. crowded

6.2. economic oportunitites

6.2.1. gold rush

6.2.2. logging

6.2.3. farming

6.2.4. run away slaves

6.3. better transportation

6.3.1. cheaper

6.3.2. faster

6.3.3. rivers, canals

6.3.3.1. Erie Canal

7. inventor

7.1. first to think or make something

8. Women's Sufferage

8.1. believed all men and women were created equal

8.1.1. Leaders

8.1.1.1. Isabelle Sojourner Truth

8.1.1.1.1. former slave, advocate for equality and justice

8.1.1.2. Susan B. Anthony

8.1.1.2.1. voting rights

8.1.1.3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

8.1.1.3.1. women's right conventions