Trabajo 4ª ESO

1. EE.UU. :THE CONSTRUCTION OF A
NATION

2. In the century XIX two fundamental processes
took place for the United States: The
expansion towards the west and the war of
secession. The country grew very much and
began an unstoppable cost-reducing
development.
INTRODUCTION

4. From the moment of his independence,
the thirteen colognes that formed initially
United States experienced a process of
demographic, territorial and cost-reducing
expansion than, along with the
consolidation of his democratic system,
you put the bases of the great power you
were going to become converted in after
Secesión's war.

5. EXPANSION
The expansion took effect intervening:
- Purchase: You bought to France the Luisiana, in 1819
the Florida in 1803 to Spain and Alaska was bought the
Russians in 1867.
- Annexation and the war: Texas was incorporated in
1845, while California and New Mexico were given up by
Mexico in 1848, after the defeat in the war ( Guadalupe
Hidalgo's peace ).
- Colonization: Colonists' mass arrival enabled the
expansion toward the West, favored for the big cultivable
frontages and mines, most of all give them gold of
California.

7. POPULATION GROWTH AND
INDUSTRIAL
Causes of population growth:
- The constant received of European immigrants, in
the main young people, appropriate on everything of
Great Britain, Ireland and Germany.
- The loud rate of natality. The population exceeded
less than four million inhabitants in 1790 seven
million in 1810, thirteen million in 1830 and 132
million inhabitants in 1940.

9. •The constitution of United States said that It can’t be slavery,
so they have to delete it.
•North and West States have delete slavery, but south states
continuing having it, because it was very important to produce
cotton and tobacco. This produced a confrontation between the
States that obey the Constitution and the States that didn’t
obey it.
•In 1860 Abraham Lincolm was the new president of the
country, he didn’t like slaveryin the rest of the States.

10. Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis

11. The president Lincoln and
the congress of United
States supported anyone
state have the rights to
separate and they proposed
to submit them for the force.
The war of the secesión
lasted four years and it was
finished with the victory of
the north. This war was very
destructive.
The conflict provoke half
million of deaths and
arrased much territories.

13. The period later to the war is the Reconstruction.
This period it was a great economic prosperity.
In this moment United Estates started a great
development.
This event made a United Estates in the first
industrial power in the world in the 20th century.

14. 1º: The slavery was cancelled after the
war.
2º: When the north army was retired, the
favourable laws of the south for the
black population was retired.
Events in the Reconstruction

15. Events political
In this period the politic was organized in two
parts:
 Republicans: was lays persons and in economic
matter believe in liberalism economic.
 Democrats: the democratic persons didn’t raise
the free market and defence the social
welfare.

17. What happen when the army of north was
retire?
What problem had the war of the
secesion?
This war was finished with the victory of
the north. This war was very destructive
and this conflict provoke half million of
deaths and devastate territories.
When the north army was retired, the
favourable laws of the south for the
black population was retired

19. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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