Unit 3 transformation and expansionPresentation Transcript Unit
3: Transformation and Expansion 1800-1848Section 1: The
Reshaping of Everyday Life in the Early Republic Essential
Questions• How did innovations in industry, technology and
transportation affect Americans’ lives?• What explains the
difference in Northern and Southern social and economic
development and how did it affect political unity? Unifying of a
Nation• Advances in communications and transportation enabled
Americans to expand westward.• These advances also united the
country and allowed information and products to be transported
greater distance in shorter periods of time. Section 2SLAVERY
AND THE CONSTRUCTIONOF RACE IN AMERICA Essential Questions• Why
did the idea of race and the practice of racism develop along
with African slavery in America?• Could the South have thrived
without slavery? Section 3MANIFEST DESTINY AND ITSCONSEQUENCES
Essential Questions• What were the costs and benefits of
westward expansion? Why did so many Americans mo