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An introductory course on American Studies Lecture 6: West, West 1. The territorial expansion 2. The dispossessing of Indians 3. The population move and land distribution 4. The Manifest Destiny The westward expansion:  first period 1784 Land Ordinance: ? self-government on equal basis for western settlers; ? west divided into territories temporarily governed by settlers ? abolition of slavery recommended but defeated The westward expansion: first period 1787 Northwest Ordinance: banning slavery in states west of Ohio River The Louisiana Purchase Louisiana change hands 1763: France to Spain 1800: Spain to France ------------------------------------ the “unconstitutional” move of Jefferson Issues at hand in  Louisiana Purchase America’s worry: another European power on the continent France’s doubt: no need for a new empire in north America; money for wars with Britain; fear of American help with Britain The Louisiana Purchase April 30, 1803 Over 800,000 square miles - nearly 600 million acres 15 million dollars (an average of only four cents an acre) acquired peacefully The transfer took place on December 20, 1803. 15 states would be created from it: Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Wyoming, South Dakota, Texas, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and New Mexico. The Purchase Secured one third of the entire territory Secured permanent navigation on the Mississippi; Secured withdrawal of a major European power from north America The Dispossessing of the Indians Indians in the eyes of the whites “deficient in intellectual and moral culture” a people who did not furnish “their share of the advancement of society and the prosperity of the world” “There is little of this in the constitution of our savages. Like the bear, and deer, and buffalo of his own forests, an Indian live