1. Manifest Destiny and the Louisiana Purchase enabled westward expansion in the US, allowing more settlers to move west of the Mississippi River and claim land.
2. Systems like the Headright system and land lotteries distributed free land to encourage population growth and allow settlers to own property.
3. However, Native American tribes like the Cherokee and Creek were displaced from their lands, often violently, leading to the forced removal known as the Trail of Tears.
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2. • 1. Manifest Destiny: Americans
believed they should own all of
North America, from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific
Ocean. Therefore the U.S began
expanding westward.
3. Think about it: Analyze the following
photo, how does this image relate to
westward expansion?
4. 2. Louisiana Purchase- The United
States bought (purchased) a huge
amount of land from France for
$15,000,000. The land stretched from
the Mississippi River to the Rocky
Mountains. This allowed the growing
population of the United States to
expand.
5. 3. Headright system- A system of
distributing land for free to encourage
population growth. Each white male, as
the “head” of the family, had the
“right” to receive up to 1000 acres of
land. This was Georgia’s first land
policy.
6. • 4. Yazoo Land Fraud- In 1795, four
land companies bribed the general assembly to
sell them huge tracts of land in Alabama and
Mississippi at an incredibly low price of less than two
cents an acre!
• The companies then sold the land (making huge
profits) to either other speculators or to innocent
civilians who wanted to move westward.
• Most Georgians were outraged when they learned of
the Yazoo Land Fraud. The scandal finally ended in
1814 when the federal government took control of the
lands in dispute and paid off all of the Yazoo claims.
9. • 5. Land Lotteries – From 1805-1833 a new
system created to give average people an
equal opportunity to own land. Every single
white male who lived in Georgia was given a
chance, a man with a family, a widow with
children, and orphans were given chances to
win land.
10. 6. Creek and Cherokee-The two
largest tribes of Native Americans
in Georgia. These tribes were
involved in the Trail of Tears.
11. •7. Baptist and Methodist-These
were the two main church
denominations that grew and
expanded during the time of
growth and expansion in the
South.
12.
13. • 8. Railroads- The development of
the railroad is very important
because it becomes a major form
of transportation and extends to
the west. This allows more and
more people to be mobile as the
country starts to expand
westward.
14. 9. Trail of Tears- The name given to the forced
removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia.
The state of Georgia passed laws that reversed
a treaty signed by the US and the Cherokee in
1791 that guaranteed the Indians the land. The
Cherokee took their case all the way to the
Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled in
their favor, but President Andrew Jackson
ignored the ruling and ordered the removal of the
Indians. More than 14,000 Indians began the
Trail of Tears, and over 4,000 of them died on
the way to what is now Oklahoma.
16. • 10. William McIntosh- Mixed Creek
Indian chief who was murdered by his
own people for selling Creek land to the
United States government. The selling
of the land was included in the Treaty
of Indian Springs, which was signed in
1825.
17. • 11. John Ross – Mixed Cherokee chief
who went to Washington, D.C. to ask
Congress for help in protecting his
people’s land. He was a lawyer and
argued the case for the Cherokee in
front of the Supreme Court to justice
Marshall. He won the case, but
President Jackson ignored the order.
18. • 12. Dahlonega Gold Rush-
Gold was discovered in Georgia
in 1829 in Dahlonega. This
caused white settlers to want to
move to the area to search for
Gold. The Cherokee were living
on that land at the time. This
is what started to desire to
remove the Cherokee from their
land (The Trail of Tears).
19. • 13. Worchester v. Georgia and John
Marshall – White settler ,Sam
Worchester, lived on Native American
territory. In 1832, chief justice John
Marshall ruled in the favor of the
Cherokee. Stating that: “ Georgia laws
were NOT valid in Cherokee land”.
20. •14. Andrew Jackson- 7th
president
of the United States. Forced Native
Americans to be removed from their
land, ignored court rulings, and
signed the Indian removal act which
led to the “trail of tears”.
21. • 15. Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin-Eli
Whitney invented the cotton Gin in 1793.
This machine separated the cotton from
the cotton seed. Before this invention
the process was very labor intensive.
This made it easier and cheaper to
produce cotton. As a result,
unfortunately, the demand for slavery
increased in the south.
22. •16. University of Georgia-
•The General Assembly set aside
40,000 acres of land to build UGA
•Established on January 27, 1785,
UGA is America’s FIRST
chartered (public).
23. 17. S.A.L.M.A. An
acronym to
remember the five
capitals of Georgia:
Savannah,
Augusta,
Louisville,
Milledgeville, and
Atlanta. Louisville
was the capital
during the time of
expansion and
growth. They are in
order.
24. • 18. Terminus- This is the location
where all the railroads ended. It
was another name for Atlanta. The
town was first named Terminus, then
Marthasville, and finally, Atlanta
(1845).