Expansion Over Time Space在时间和空间的扩展.ppt

Westward Movement 1815-1848 Annexation of Texas Spanish Mexican Background Stephen Austin and the Norte Americano Settlement of Texas Republic of Texas:1836-1845 Annexation:1845 Oregon Oregon as an early 19th century concept British-American Joint Occupation Ft. Vancouver the Hudson Bay Co. Methodist Missionaries American Settlement 1846 Treaty: End of Joint Occupation the Division of Oregon Mexican War: 1846-1848 President James K. Polk Mexico Beginnings of the War First Step: Conquest of what is now the American Southwest, including California Second Step: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) Expansion Over Time Space 1815-1848 Economic Growth Introduction How American context changed materially between 1815 1848 Supreme achievement of economic growth during this period: a manufacturing base American manufacturing in 1848 exceeded only by manufacturing in Great Britain In spite of this development, American economy still primarily agricultural Last decades of the 19th century brought final triumph of industrialism Government role in economic growth Neo-Hamiltonian economic policy the American System of Henry Clay Second Bank of the United States, 1816-1836 Protective Tariff. Custom duties are collected to promote American manufacturing Liberalization of land distribution policy to encourage a “land office business” 80 acres available at $1.25 per acre U.S. Supreme Court and John Marshall. Eliminate barriers to economic growth. See McCulloch v Maryland (1819) Government role in economic growth—cont. Role of state governments in economic growth Significance of the Erie Canal State Aid to Infrastructure Projects such as canals and railroads Modernizing Transportation American Transportation in 1815: technologically primitive Improvements through canal building Erie Canal inaugurated an era of canal building, tying natural water ways into a national system Application of steam power to problem of river transportation Robert Fulton and the Claremont Role on M