Economic Development and Westward Movement

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

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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