1. Social challenges
1.1. The cow-boys
1.1.1. Workers payed between 25 and 40 dollars per month
1.1.2. Keeping animals such as cows or horses
1.1.3. Fix things, like fences
1.1.4. Their life
1.1.4.1. Poor peopleithout law
1.1.4.2. Forbidden to enter certain establishments
1.1.4.3. They lived in ranches
1.1.4.4. They slept together in the same bedroom
1.1.4.5. Hard works per day, with 15 working hours
1.2. The Tomas Jefferson's exploration
1.2.1. Two men went to explore the west
1.2.1.1. Meriwether Lewis
1.2.1.2. William Clark
1.2.2. Type of exploration
1.2.2.1. scientific
1.2.2.2. commercial
1.2.2.3. Establish a link with the indigenous
1.2.2.4. Study the indigenous culture
1.3. The religious, like mormons
1.3.1. Joseph Smith created this religion (1830)
1.3.2. Wanted a new place to restore their truth In Catholicism
1.4. Indigenous communities
1.4.1. The war opposed Americans and British people
1.4.1.1. americans made an alliance with the natives
1.4.1.2. Massacres endured by the natives
1.4.1.3. About 10 thousands dead (the big losers
1.4.2. Represented about 1 million people
1.4.2.1. Their animals have been hunted
1.5. The immigrants
1.5.1. First arival, the northern Europe population
1.5.2. Sothern and eastern Europeans were coming after
1.5.3. Why were they leaving home
1.5.3.1. To flee war
1.5.3.2. due to the starvation
1.5.3.3. to fin a job and support their families
1.5.3.4. In a hope of a better life
1.5.4. Chineses immigrants
1.5.4.1. Came to find work
1.5.4.2. Came to join the California gold rush
1.5.4.3. Had to pay tax of 3 dollars (1852)
1.6. The treatments of immigrants
1.6.1. Ellis Island welcomed millions of immigrants (1892
1.6.2. Dillingham Comission concluded that immigrants posed a serious threat to America (1907
1.6.2.1. Immigrants were greatly curtailed
1.6.2.2. Ellis Island became the "Island of Tears
1.7. The thought of immigrants
1.7.1. The vast majority believed that Ellis Island was "the island of hope"
1.7.2. Some immigrants were denied
1.7.3. who where already immigrated were separated of their families
1.7.4. Those who where already immigrants, were separated of their families
1.8. Slaves in southern plantation
1.8.1. The rise in the price of cotton (1773
1.8.1.1. The increase in the number of slaves
1.8.1.2. The soil has been depleted by planting
1.8.1.2.1. A search for new lands
1.8.1.2.2. The territory has been extended
2. Economic transformation
2.1. Most explorers
2.1.1. Did not want to discover territories
2.1.2. Wanted to make fotune
2.1.2.1. The hunted animals
2.1.2.2. They took animal furs and sold them
2.1.2.3. They chased the Amerindians and took their wealth
2.2. The moving out to the gold rush
2.2.1. James W. Marshall was the first to find a coin in West of America
2.2.2. People thought they will be rich
2.2.3. 300 000 prospectors
2.3. The Lands purchase
2.3.1. The louisiana was bought from the french to the Americans
2.3.2. Purchased lands from the natives
2.3.2.1. Gave them simple things, like a piece of cloth
2.3.2.2. cultivated the land
2.3.2.3. Exported the land's goods to others continents, and made fortune
3. Territorial changes and challenges
3.1. A country with about 10 million square kilometeres
3.2. The extinction of tribes
3.2.1. Because of the smallpox epidemics
3.2.1.1. They were not immune against
3.3. The natives difficulties
3.3.1. A deportation with about 70 thousands people
3.3.1.1. 18 thousands died
3.3.1.1.1. Starvation
3.3.1.1.2. disease
3.3.1.1.3. due to the difficuties of the journey
3.3.1.2. had to face conflicts with the natives of Oklahoma
3.4. The trip of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
3.4.1. The first americans who discover the American lands
3.4.2. The firsts who found trade roads to Asia
3.4.3. The firsts who reached the sea by lands
3.4.4. An exemple for others
3.4.4.1. The used the natives roads leading to the coast even if it was forbiden
3.4.4.2. They did not respect the laws
3.5. The West belonged to America with the Monrow Doctrin
3.6. Canadian territories occupied by the British (1812-1815)
3.6.1. Americain reaction
3.6.1.1. La levée des restrictions imposées par les Britanniques
3.7. The purchase of territories
3.7.1. An extznsion of the power
3.7.2. One century to purchase all lands
4. Political transformation
4.1. Abraham Lincoln, the republicain party, and thefederation
4.1.1. Founded in 1854 for freedom and changes
4.1.2. An anti-slavery party
4.1.3. Joined by others paties (ex: Know-nothing party)
4.1.4. Became the main party in USA
4.2. A divided country
4.2.1. Parties that did not have the same goals
4.2.2. An instability
4.2.2.1. Attempt to seize power by force
4.2.2.2. Try to establish a dictatorship
4.3. Franklin Pierce, 14th president of the USA, and the democratic party
4.3.1. A party that supported the slavery
4.3.2. Conservative and anti-federalist party
4.3.3. Defended the freedom of the country
4.3.4. Became more liberal (1890s)
4.4. The civil war, and abraham Lincoln
4.4.1. Determined to prevent any slavery expansion to the territories
4.4.2. A winning candidate in the elections
4.4.3. Southern rulers broke from their territory out of fearful
4.5. Know-nothing party
4.5.1. A nativist political party founded in 1844 t
4.5.2. protestants who did not accept the immigration
4.5.3. Due to the international differences over slavery, the party split up
4.6. The Monrow doctrin
4.6.1. Europeans must not intervene in the new lands
4.6.2. Americans must not intervene in European affairs
4.7. The immigrant presidents
4.7.1. Barack obama, first black president in the USA
4.7.2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the first catholic president in the USA
4.7.3. No one woman in power
4.7.4. William McKinley, the 25th president of the USA
4.8. The Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
4.8.1. An agreement between the United States and the Lakota Indian people
4.8.1.1. people violated the treaty because of a gold discovery
4.8.1.2. American refused to return the lands to their first owners
4.8.2. What it was granted
4.8.2.1. Protection of the Native American population and its culture
4.8.2.2. Indian possession of the Black Hills region
4.8.2.3. Native Americans to develop their agriculture
4.9. The Indian removal Act (1830)
4.9.1. The natives who lived in south-Est had to migrated to the West of the Mississipi
4.10. The Kansas-Nebraska act, in 1854)
4.10.1. written by the democrat stephen Douglas
4.10.2. A vote that was mainly a way to creat new slaver state
4.10.3. Little political parties those were no agree gathered into a unique party: The republican party