Us History Outline 1800's-1900
EXPLORING THE WEST * No stop to the expansion to the west * 1840, Americans occupied all East of the Mississippi River * Less than 60 years after independence, most of population lived west
THE FUR TRADE * Fur trade boosted exploration on America * Traders & trappers depended on the goodwill of Natives * Oregon Country was the trading place for Natives and Americans * Not until 1820 were Americans be able to challenge British dominance of the trans-Mississippi fur trade. * Rendezvous System instituted by William Henry Ashley of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company * Trappers brought their catch of furs to then trade them for goods transported by the fur companies * Trappers and traders lived in the mountains with relations of sorts with the Natives nearby * Trappers & Traders would usually take Native wives
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED EXPLORATION * The federal government played a major role in the exploration & development of the West * 1803 Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Jefferson influenced American westward expantion * Jefferson sent Lewis & Clark to persuade Natives into the American trading network to steer them away from the British * Lewis & Clark set a precedent for many government-financed expeditions * The government published results of these expeditions and photos came after the Civil War * Land Ordinance of 1785 told how Federal Government sold lands * Federal Government sold lands cheap and gave land away to Veterans of 1812
EXPANSION AND INDIAN POLICY * Eastern Indian tribes were being removed from their homelands to Indian Territory * Jefferson claimed this would allow Natives to live quietly and learn “civilized” ways * Government officials who negotiated the removals failed to predict the tremendous speed which white people would settle West causing encroachment on Indian Territory * Government abolished Northern section on the Indian territory then became Kansas &
THE FUR TRADE * Fur trade boosted exploration on America * Traders & trappers depended on the goodwill of Natives * Oregon Country was the trading place for Natives and Americans * Not until 1820 were Americans be able to challenge British dominance of the trans-Mississippi fur trade. * Rendezvous System instituted by William Henry Ashley of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company * Trappers brought their catch of furs to then trade them for goods transported by the fur companies * Trappers and traders lived in the mountains with relations of sorts with the Natives nearby * Trappers & Traders would usually take Native wives
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED EXPLORATION * The federal government played a major role in the exploration & development of the West * 1803 Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Jefferson influenced American westward expantion * Jefferson sent Lewis & Clark to persuade Natives into the American trading network to steer them away from the British * Lewis & Clark set a precedent for many government-financed expeditions * The government published results of these expeditions and photos came after the Civil War * Land Ordinance of 1785 told how Federal Government sold lands * Federal Government sold lands cheap and gave land away to Veterans of 1812
EXPANSION AND INDIAN POLICY * Eastern Indian tribes were being removed from their homelands to Indian Territory * Jefferson claimed this would allow Natives to live quietly and learn “civilized” ways * Government officials who negotiated the removals failed to predict the tremendous speed which white people would settle West causing encroachment on Indian Territory * Government abolished Northern section on the Indian territory then became Kansas &