United States History Student Edition

Looking Ahead You will learn about the political and geographical transformations that occurred in the United States during the presidency of Andrew Jackson and the age of westward expansion. You will examine Compelling Questions and develop your own questions about the time period in the Inquiry Activity Lessons. You can preview some of the key events and people that you will learn about by reviewing the time line. What Will You Learn? In these lessons about political and geographic changes, you will learn about: • the importance of Jacksonian democracy. • the policies, events, and issues related to Native Americans during the Jackson era, including the Trail of Tears. • the issues related to the concept of Manifest Destiny. • the settling of the Oregon Territory and other regions of the continent. • the events leading to the independence of Texas and its eventual statehood. • the causes and results of the Mexican- American War. • the impact of the California Gold Rush on the U.S. culture and economy. • the settling of California and Utah. ? COMPELLING QUESTIONS IN INQUIRY ACTIVITY LESSONS • Is the forced movement of people ever justified? • What are people willing to risk for new opportunities? • What pushes and pulls people to move?

KEY EVENTS OF POLITICAL AND GEOGRAPHIC CHANGES 1820

1822 Stephen Austin leads American settlers to Mexican Texas

1828 Andrew Jackson elected president

1830

1832 Nullification crisis occurs

1835 The Seminole War begins

1840s Thousands of American settlers follow the Oregon Trail to the West 1838 The removal of the Cherokee people from the southeastern states, the Trail of Tears, begins

1840

1845 Texas joins the Union 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe 1842 The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settles boundary dispute between the U.S. and Canada

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Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War 1848 The California Gold Rush begins

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1850

Sequencing Did the removal of the Cherokee people begin before or after Texas became a part of the Union?

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