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Objectives
Trace U.S. expansion to the Pacific
Describe effects of the Civil War
Analyze postwar economic expansion
Gadsden Purchase
Settled boarder with the US Mexico
29,640-square-mile
$10,000,000
Southern Economy
Less diverse
Mostly farms
Cash crops
Slave based
Northern population
Wanted slavery outlawed in the west
Morally wrong
Southern population
Saw slavery as economically necessary
Fertile soil in the west for cash crops
Secede
With draw from the union
Reconstruction
Emancipation Proclamation
1865-1876
14th Amendment
Segregation Laws
13th Amendment
The Railroads
1870s
1914
20,000,000 people had moved to the
United States from Europe and Asia
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How was the effect of the Mexican-American War greater than its
cause? What did we set out to do? What did we gain?
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