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The Westward Expansion Timeline Activity
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George Washington Gives Shape to the Office of President
When George Washing took the oath of office as the nation's first president in 1789. -
Cotton Gin
While visting a Georgia plantation in 1793, Whitney observed how slaves spent hours cleaning the seeds from cotton. Within daus, he had invented the cotton gin, a nachine that could clean 50 pounds of cotton in the time it took to clean one pund by hand. -
Political Parties Emerge
"Hamilton and myself were daily pitted like two fighting cocks," Jefferson wrote of their growing hostility. These differences led to the creation of the country's first political parties, the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicanns. -
Political Parties Emerge
Ín general, Washington favored Federalists ideas. Nonetheless, in his Farewell Address, delivered near the end of his second term, he warned of "the danger of parties"and spoke of "the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness." -
Marshall Court
The marshall court ruled that "the power to tac involves the power to destroy". -
Geographic Changes
Lewis and Clark set from St. Louis on their journey to the Pacific Ocean. -
Factory Sytem
Boston merchant Francis Cabot Lowell, father of the factory sytem, opened his first cotton mill in 1814. -
From Sea to Shining Sea: Acquiring the West
The idea of manifest destiny inspired further expansion. Spain was persuaded to cede Florida to the United States in 1819. -
Democratic Party
Jackson created the Democratic party to gain the common people's support. -
Democracy for the Common Man- But Not Woman
Jackson owned his victory in part to an expansion of suffrage, or voting rights. By 1828, most states had dropped the requirement that voting citizens must own property. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 made all indians from the East of the Missippi river migrate west of it to indian territroy. -
Manifest Desinty
In the 1840s the combination of nationlism and expansionnism gave rise to the belief know as manifest destiny. The term means obvious fate. -
Settlers Find Oppurtunity and Liberty in the WEst
One group that made the journey west was made up of the Mormons. This religious group traveled over the Oregon Trail to Utah to escape persecution. The settled on the desert lands surrounding Great Salt Lake and created a thriving, prosperous community. -
Seneca Falls Convention
At an 1848 meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, a women's movement was launched that would last for decades. Its goal was equality under the law for both men and women. -
Second Great Awakening
Many states were promoting public education. Another reform effort fueled by the Second Great Awakening was the temperance movement. -
A Dividing Nation
Senator Charles Summer of Massachusetts was savagely beaten on the floor of the Senate. The attack followed a speech Summer had given entitled "The Crime Against Kansas."
