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    Chapter 9 Notes

     A consequence is what happens because of an action.


     After the Mexican-American War, many new lands were given to the United States in an
    act of cession by the Mexican government.
     Brigham Young was a Mormon leader who led a group on a 1,000 mile trip from Illinois
    to the Great Salt Lake valley, in what is now Utah.
     Even though many Cherokee people tried to assimilate to American ways of life, they
    were still forced to move set to what is now Oklahoma.
     Francis Scott Key wrote a Poem called “The Star-Spangled Banner” that later became the
    national anthem.
     Impressment, or forcing American sailors to work on British navy ships, angered many
    Americans.
     In 1792, Kentucky became the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains.
     In order to travel west, many American settlers had to ford rivers to reach their
    destinations.
     James Monroe announced a plan in 1823 called the Monroe Doctrine.
     Lewis and Clark found the Rocky Mountains which separated the flow of the rivers
    across the continent.
     Many Americans felt a sense of nationalism after the nation had defeated the British in
    the War of 1812.
     Many pioneers searched for a gap in the Appalachian Mountains through which they
    could pass.
     Napoleon Bonaparte was the leader of France who was asked to sell New Orleans.
     Native Americans were forced to move west when the president signed the Indian
    Removal Act.
     One of the best known pioneers to cross the Appalachians was Daniel Boone.
     People who rushed to California during the gold rush were called the forty-niners.
     Pioneers were the early settlers of the areas.
     Railroads made it easier for people to travel and ship goods.
     Sacagawea was a Shoshone woman who was born in what is now the state of Idaho.
     Santa Anna made himself the dictator of Mexico.
     Texas was annexed, or added on, by the United States in 1845.
     The creation of the cotton gin made it possible to remove the seeds from cotton faster
    which resulted in an increase of the number of slaves who worked on cotton-growing
    plantations.
     The Erie Canal was a human-made waterway that connected Lake Erie and the Hudson
    River.
     The first governor of Tennessee was John Sevier.
     The growth of the United States allowed the Army to push many Native Americans off
    of their lands.
     The Indian Removal Act was a law signed by Andrew Jackson that forced the Cherokee
    and other tribes to leave their land and move west of the Mississippi, now known as
    Oklahoma.
     The invention of the cotton gin led to an increase in the number of slaves working on
    plantations.
     The Lewis and Clark expedition started in St. Louis and ended in the Oregon Country.
     The Louisiana Purchase more than doubled the size of the country and expanded the
    western border of the nation to the Rocky Mountains. This led to more exploration of
    North America and new states.
     The Oregon Trail began in Independence, Missouri.
     Thomas Jefferson created the Louisiana Purchase to greatly expand the United States.
     Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States.
     Trails were important because travel west was new to many Americans so they helped
    settlers reach their destinations in a safer way.
     Voters felt Andrew Jackson was a “common man” like them. They decided to make him
    a symbol of the country’s changing sense of what a democracy should be. This was
    called the “Jacksonian Democracy.”

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