SSH4H6

The students will explain the westward expansion of

America between 1801 and 1861

Review – War of 1812

• 1.Congress declared war with Britain because British officers raided _______ _______, captured American _________, and helped the__________ _______ fight settlers.

2. _______ _____ _____ wrote the Star Spangled Banner.

• 2. Americans enjoyed a sense of ________ after the War of 1812 because they enjoyed peace and _________ and were proud of their country.

Review: The Presidents

• First President:

• Second President:

• Third President :

• Fourth President:

• Fifth President:

Essential Question

• How did Andrew Jackson’s presidency change the new nation?

Vocabulary:

• Suffrage

• -the right to vote

• Campaign

• - a series of actions taken toward a goal

• Ruling

• -an official decision

A New President• After our sixth president, John

Quincy Adams left office, Andrew Jackson became our new President.

• He was unlike the others-who were wealthy and educated- he grew up poor in Carolina and then moved west to Tennessee.

• He became a lawyer, a politician, and a business man.

• He was the first president to come from the frontier.

After the War of 1812:

• Many people moved west to settle and form new states.

• The farmers, settlers, and working men who lived in the territories were given suffrage when the territories became states.

Voting• Before suffrage, onlywhite men who owned land or had money could vote.

After suffrage, womenand African Americanscould still not vote.

Andrew Jackson supportedthe voters and they liked hiscampaign. Their votes helped elect him President.

Indian Removal Act

• President Jackson felt the American Indians slowed the growth of the United States because they lived on the land that the settlers wanted to live on.

In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. President

Jackson signed it into law. • This law forced

American Indians to move to Indian

territory in Oklahoma,

west of Mississippi River.

Trail of Tears

• The Cherokee Indians objected to the Removal Act. This is their story:

• video

Review of Trail of Tears:

• Indian Removal Act

• The Cherokees were held in forts

• The journey west to Oklahoma was long and hard. Many died along the way.

• American Indians began rebuilding their lives in the Oklahoma Indian Territory.

The Seminoles

• The Seminole Indians were Creek peoples who had settled in Florida.

• The army also tried to force them to move, but they resisted.

• Their Chief, Chief Osceola, led many Seminoles in fighting to keep their land.

• He was put in jail and died, but the Indians continued fighting for many years to keep their homes.

Essential Question

• How did Andrew Jackson’s presidency change the new nation?

Review:

• Many farmers, settlers, and working men gained suffrage.

• Jackson ordered thousands of Indians to be moved off their land.

• Many Indians died on the Trail of Tears.

• Living in a new environment, the Indians lives changed forever.