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Economic Development and Westward Movement. Economic Development. Northern Economy. Industrial economy with a lot of factories and businesses. Southern Economy. Agricultural economy with large plantations “King Cotton” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Economic Economic Development and Development and
Westward MovementWestward Movement
Economic DevelopmentEconomic Development
Northern Economy
• Industrial economy with a lot of factories and businesses
Southern Economy
• Agricultural economy with large plantations
• “King Cotton”– Entire economic
system and way of life was built around the cotton product
New Inventions New Inventions Stimulate American Stimulate American
EconomyEconomy
Steam Engine
• Lead to the invention of trains
• Made boats move faster than sails
Railroads
• Easier to transport people and cargo across land
Canals
• Man made rivers which made it easier to transport cargo to places without rivers
Cotton Gin
• Machine that picked seeds out of cotton
• Invented by Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin
• Made cotton production quicker and extremely profitable
• Caused dramatic increase in use of Slaves
Westward MovementWestward Movement
Manifest Destiny
•It was “God’s Will” for the US to control all land between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
Louisiana PurchaseLouisiana Purchase
• Made in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson
• Bought from France for 15 million dollars
• Doubled the size of the US• TJ wanted to expand the
agricultural power of the US
Lewis And Clark Expedition
• Financed by TJ to survey and explore the Louisiana Purchase
• Aided by Sacajawea, an Indian guide and translator
Reasons for Moving Out Reasons for Moving Out WestWest
• Economic opportunities in free land in the Midwest, Southwest, and Texas
• Manifest Destiny
Impact of Westward Impact of Westward Movement on Native Movement on Native
AmericanAmerican
Native American Impact
• Indians were forced off their homelands onto reservations
• Reservation – gov’t land set aside for Indians to live
Indian Removal Act (1830)
• Andrew Jackson’s plan to give Indians reservations out west in exchange for land in the east
• Indians never agreed to plan
Trail of Tears
• Several large Indian tribes in Florida and Georgia were forcibly relocated to reservations in Oklahoma by US military
Trail of Tears
• Thousands of Indians died along the way
• 1 out of 4 Cherokee Indians died during trail
Native American Impact
• US Military attacked and killed any Indian tribe who resisted removal
• Indian Removal would continue for the rest of the century