THE EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THE EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

1. In 1800, the United States did not look the way it does now. It was smaller.

   • The first big step in Westward Expansion was the Louisiana Purchase.
     • The President, Thomas Jefferson, bought 828,000 square miles of land from France. This land, called the Louisiana Territory, was just west of the United States.
       • In 1848, America bought the Oregon territory from England.
         • In 1890, the US government announced that the west had been explored.
           • • The population of the United States grew from 5.2 million people in 1800 to 76.2 million in 1900.

2. ACTIVITY

   • SS will go to their digital books and answer some open question about the United States and its expansion (page number 3 ”the expansion of the United States”)
     • The ss will explain in their own words what what the expansion of the United States, then they will go to Nearpod and develop a worksheet about The territorial expansion of this country, the answers will be shared in class.
       • https://app.wizer.me/preview/M1F8UZ

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