Virginia and US History SOL map study: US expansion 1789-1959
Preparation for the state of Virginian SOL ("Standards of Learning") History test: US expansion 1789-1959
Content: timeline maps showing growth in territories and addition of new states
Purpose: to associate time, place and events
Early Republic, 1789-1820
US after becoming an independent nation
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Organization of new territories between
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Territorial growth & Mexican-American War, 1820-1860
Louisiana Purchase, 1803 |
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Mexican Texas, 1827-1836 & Republic of Texas, 1836-1846 |
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Mexican-American War, 1848 |
Slavery maps, to 1865
Late colonial slave population per colony, 1770 |
Slavery in the 13 American colonies just prior to the American Revolution
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The Cotton gin and "King Cotton" |
See this animated map timeline for expansion of slavery from colonial to Civil War period
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1820 Missouri Compromise |
Called the "Missouri Compromise," in 1820, Congress passed laws to admit Maine and Missouri as states
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Civil War, 1861-1865
Secession of southern states, 1861 |
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Following the election of Abraham Lincoln as President, southern states "seceded" (left) the Union (the "union" of states under the Constitution)
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Continental expansion & overseas territories, 1865-1900
"Closing of the Frontier" - admission of western states |
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Westward expansion followed post-Civil War industrialization, railroad building, and population growth
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Spanish-American War, 1898 |
in 1898, the US attacked the Spanish colonies of the Philippines (Asia, Cuba and Puerto Rico (both in the Caribbean Sea)
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20th century new states, 1900-1959
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