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Sunday, April 7, 2013
Chapter 11 Section 4 Notes
Chapter 11 Section 4: New Nations
in the Americas: Notes
Revolution
in Latin America
·
***In South America a series of
revolutions freed colonies from Spanish rule.
·
Other independent nations emerged in Latin America.
(Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Ecuador)
The New
republics
·
Spain’s former colonies modeled their constitutions on
that of the United States.
·
Geography of Latin America made unity, travel, and
communication difficult.
The United States Gains Florida
·
Spain lost another one of its colonies, Florida.
·
***In 1818, Jackson headed to Florida
with a force of more than 3,000 soldiers.
·
Spain agrees to peace talks. Secretary of State, John
Quincy Adams worked out the Adams-Onis Treaty
The Monroe Doctrine
·
In a message to Congress, President Monroe made a bold
foreign policy statement, known as the Monroe
Doctrine.
·
The U.S. would not interfere in the affairs of the
European nations or existing colonies of the European nations.
·
***On several occasions, the U.S.
successfully challenged European intervention,
or direct involvement, in Latin America.
Chapter 11 Section 2 Notes
Chapter
11 Section 2: Americans Move
Westward: Notes
See Vocabulary link on the blog to receive key words and
people.
Traveling
West
Settlers had been moving westward since the 1600’s. By
the 1820’s, so many people had moved west.
·
One well-traveled
path was the Great Wagon Road across Pennsylvania.
·
Settlers pushed west
to Pittsburgh, loading animals and wagons onto flatboats.
New States
***Some western territories had populations large enough to apply for statehood. Between 1792-1819, eight states joined the union.
Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana,
Mississippi, Illinois and Alabama.
Improvement to Roads
· ***Settlers faced difficult journeys to the west.
· Roads were narrow and
often plunged into muddy swamps.
·
In 1806, for the
first time, Congress approved funds for a national road-building project.
· ***The National Road
was to run from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, in West Virginia.
Steam Transport
***Fitch and Fulton
· John Fitch showed
members of the Constitutional convention how a steam engine could power a boat.
He went out of business.
·
***In 1807 Robert Fulton launched his own steam boat, the
Clermont, in Philadelphia on the Hudson River.
·
Steam boat travel was
still dangerous, and had many flaws.
The
Canal Boom
·
New ways of
transportation still did not give farmers a way to quickly transport their
goods east.
·
***The earliest American canals were no more than a few miles
long.
·
New Yorkers wanted to
build a canal linking the Great Lakes.
·
*** The Erie Canal
would let western farmers ship their goods to the port of New York.
· The cost of shipping
dropped and the canal made New York a center of commerce.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Chapter 11 Section 1
The Industrial Revolution
Week of April 8th : Chapter 11 Section 1
Before the 1800s, most Americans were farmers and most goods were produced by hand. This section describes the growth in industrial life; this includes topics such as factories, the jobs created, the jobs lost, and how the Industrial Revolution affected peoples' lives at that time.Questions to THINK about: (key points)
What dramatic changes did the Industrial Revolution cause in the 1800s?Why was Lowell, Massachusetts an important place during the Industrial Revolution?
Chapter 11 Section 2
Americans Move Westward
Week of April 8th : Chapter 11 Section 2
This section describes the many new ways of transportation that developed during the late 1700's and the early 1800's.
Question to THINK about: (key points)
The United States began using new transportation over the years. This includes ways such as roads for wagons, trains and canals with steamboats. In 1807, John Filch launched his fantastic new boat, the Clermont on which river?
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