Manifest Destiny

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Manifest Destiny
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Expansion of the United States



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Original 13 States

• Gained Independence in 1783 from Great Britain

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Land west of the Appalachian Mountain and east of
the Mississippi River

• Given to the United States in the Treaty of Pairs
  in 1783 after winning Independence from Great
  Britain
  
• Wanted this area for the rich Ohio River Valley

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Louisiana Purchase -1803

• Bought from Napoleon Bonaparte of France by
  Jefferson
  
• United States doubled in size
• Unrestricted access to the Mississippi River
• Could now reach New Orleans from middle of North
  America
  
• Sent out Lewis and Clark to explore
• Try to find all water route
• Record information
• Great success land travel into west was
  possible
  
• Result Mt. Men and Missionaries travel west

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Red River Basin

• ceded by Britain in 1818

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West and East Florida

• Ceded by Spain in 1819 in the Adams-Onis Treaty
  
  
• Paid 5 million to Spain
• Relinquished its claims to parts of Texas west
  of the Sabine River (in Texas)
  
• Spain had been forced to negotiate because it
  was losing its hold on its colonial empire

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Texas Annexation 1845

• American move into Spanish Texas
• first lead by Stephen Austin
• American began to rebel wanted more political
  freedom
  
• Report claims Texas is too Americanized
• Political upheavals in Mexico result in gov. in
  hands of a dictator
  
• Santa Anna
• Provisional government in Texas organized
• asked that constitution be restored
• Austin goes to US to appeal for aid
• Santa Anna goes out to subdue the rebels
• Meet at the Alamo
• every last person killed
• Rally cry Remember the Alamo

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Texas Annexation 1845

• Texas gains its independence
• becomes the Lone Star Republic
• Texas turns to US for protection
• US refused
• Texas has slaves
• Turn to Britain - interested as a source of
  cotton
  
• Fearing an alliance US annex Texas in 1845

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Oregon Country

• Annex by President Polk in 1846
• US and Britain agree to control jointly
• more and more Americans travel to Oregon trail
  via Oregon Trail
  
• Many wanted all of Oregon Territory
• Becomes a campaign issue of 1844
• Dem. Polk v. Whig Henry Clay
• Fifty - four Forty of Fight
• Polk wins election in 1844
• one of his goals is to settle the Oregon
  problem
  
• US is on the verge of war with Mexico, Polk
  doesnt want to fight both
  
• Settles with Britain at 49 north

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Mexican Cession

• Polk wanted to add the rest of the northwestern
  part of Mexico
  
• either by buying or conquest
• Mexico refused Polks offer
• He ordered General Zachary Taylor to march from
  the Nueces River to the Rio Grand
  
• Two cabinet members stood up and said they would
  feel better if the Mexicans fired first
  
• Very evening news of bloodshed
• Spot resolution by Lincoln
• Mexico lost war and land
• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
• S/W part of the United States
• California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico
  
  
• American gov. paid 15 million

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Gadsden Purchase

• pay 10 million
• land was purchased for the building of a
  transcontinental railroad
  
• with this purchase US rounded out it present
  southern boundary

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Who went West, Why and How

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Trails West
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Problem

• Slave or Free?