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    1. As Americans pushed west, Native Americans were displaced from their lands. 2. In 1849, prospectors headed west due to the California Gold Rush. 3. A woman on the wagon train is carrying a sewing machine, one of the new inventions that helped connect the country.

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    1. As Americans pushed west, Native Americans were displaced from their lands. 2. In 1849, prospectors headed west due to the California Gold Rush. 3. A woman on the wagon train is carrying a sewing machine, one of the new inventions that helped connect the country.

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    1. As Americans pushed west, Native Americans were displaced from their lands. 2. In 1849, prospectors headed west due to the California Gold Rush. 3. A woman on the wagon train is carrying a sewing machine, one of the new inventions that helped connect the country.

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    1. What 3. What new
    happened to invention is she
    Native carrying west?
    Americans as
    Americans
    pushed west?

    2. Why did
    prospectors head west
    in 1849?
    What: Placing the interests of your region ahead
    of the nation as a whole

     Constantly new
     Large cities
    settlers
     Economy based  Many
     Mining on slavery & immigrants
     Connected by plantations
     Industry &
    rail and  King cotton manufacturing
    telegraph exports bring $$$
     1820 agreement on territories entering the Union
     East-west line drawn through the Louisiana Purchase
     Missouri open to slavery but Maine free to keep balance of free & slave states

    Key

    Free State

    Slave State
     California enters as a Free state; Texas is a slave state
     Stronger fugitive slave law to be enforced
     Slave trade banned in Washington, DC

    Key

    Free State

    Slave State
     Popular sovereignty will decide if Kansas and Nebraska are free or slave states
     Bloody Kansas – riots across the state during voting
     Republican Party forms from Whigs and Free Soil Democrats to oppose slavery

    Key

    Free State

    Slave State

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