Historical Maps

Bering Land Bridge Theory

• Old World→ New: horses, pigs, wheat, smallpox.

• New World → Old: corn, potatoes, tomatoes.

• Massive demographic collapse of Native populations due to disease.

• Foundation of global capitalism and Atlantic slavery.

Spread of Islam

Controlled trade networks

European Claims in 1750

• Spain: Southwest & Florida

• France: Mississippi Valley

• Britain: East Coast

Colombian Exchange

Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Forced migration of millions of Africans to the Americas.

• Part of the triangular trade.

• Central to plantation economies in the Caribbean and southern colonies.

Proclamation of 1763

Missouri Compromise

Mexican Cession (Mexico ce fue)

• Land gained after Mexican-American War.

• Includes CA, NV, UT, AZ, NM.

• Intensifies slavery debate.

Louisiana Purchase

• U.S. buys land from France.

• Doubles U.S. size.

• Raises constitutional questions.

Middle Ground of the French and Indian War

Global Immigration of 1815-1914

• Irish, Germans, later Southern/Eastern Europeans

• Urban growth, nativism, labor tension