A Historic Overview 1829-1865

The United States of America

Na Rae Sin, Muhan Chen

★Andrew JacksonMarch 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845

President

seventh President of the United States (1829–1837)

He was First in many ways

Born

Waxhaw area, on North Carolina-South Carolina border

Career: Lawyer, Soldier

Political Party: Demo-crat

★ Westward Expansion 1789-1849

The original territoryThe United States - in 1783, thirteen States.

*Ceded to the United States All the territory west of the present boundaries of

the States Virginia, 1784; Massachu-setts, 1785; Connecticut, 1786 and 1800; South Carolina, 1787; North Carolina, 1790; Georgia, 1802.

*Cede = (v) to give sb control of sth or give them power

★ Mexican-American War1846-1848

Causes of conflict The desire of the U.S. to the Pacific OceanThe Texas War of Independence and the sub-

sequent annexation of that area to the United States

Consequences of conflict The United States acquired the northern

half of Mexico Flash Map

★Gold Rush1848-1855

American Dream Discovery

James Marshall : January 24th, 1848 Fever

By early 1849, gold fever was an epidemicThe Gold Rush attracted people - Latin

America, Europe, Australia, and China.

★Fort Sumter

• as one of a series of fortifications on the southern U.S. coast• Construction began in 1827, and the struc-

ture was still unfinished in 1860 build up a sand bar in the entrance to Charleston harbor

• It was designed to house 650 men and 135 guns in three tiers of gun emplacements, al-though it was never filled near its full capacity.

★Confederacy

• The Confederate States of America AKA CSA

• an unrecognized state eleven southern slave

states

• and after four years of fighting in the Ameri-

can Civil War, the Confederate armies surren-

dered, its government collapsed

• and its slaves were emancipated

★The Union

• the Union federal government of the United

States

• supported by the twenty free states and five

border slave states(Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky,

Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee)

• It was opposed by 11 Southern slave states

that had declared a secession to join together to

form the Confederacy

Credits• Andrew Jackson http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/andrewjackson http://ncpedia.org/biography/jackson-andrew

• Westward Expansion http://www.sonofthesouth.net/texas/westward-expan-sion.htm

• Mexican American War http://www.historyguy.com/Mexican-American_War.html http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html

• Gold Rush http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/home.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War#cite_note-MissFacts-118• http://image.baidu.com/i?ct=503316480&z=0&tn=baiduimagedetail&word=%C3%C0%B9%FA%C4%DA%D5%BD&in=21756&cl=2&lm=-1&pn=2&rn=1&di=31117701615&ln=1&fr=&ic=0&s=&se=&sme=0&tab=&width=&height=&face=0&fb=0