Territories

USI.8a

Westward Ho!
USI.8b

Inventions & Inventors
USI.8c

Abolitionists

USI.8d

Suffrage

USI.8d

100

Louisiana

Oregon

Eli Whitney

The immediate freeing of the slaves.

Women

200

Florida, Spain

Gold, logging, farming & freedom

Cyrus McCormick, Jo Anderson

Morally wrong

Cruel & inhumane

A violation of the principles of democracy

That “All men and women are created equal”

300

Texas

Oregon & Santa Fe

Robert Fulton

Harriett Tubman

False

 

400

Mexico

Population growth in eastern states; availability of cheap, fertile land; cheaper, faster transportation; overland trails; economic opportunity

Increased cotton production increased the need for slave labor to cultivate & pick cotton

Fredrick Douglass

Right to vote,

Higher education,

Equal business opportunities, limited in the right to won property

500

Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Oregon, California

The idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country.

Steam locomotive

William Lloyd Garrison

Isabel Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 

Final Question:   Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, the Louisiana Purchase