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Title: Manifest Destiny


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Chapter 9
  • Manifest Destiny

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1. Migrating to the West
  • Trace the settlement and development of the West.
  • Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny.
  • Describe the causes and challenges of westward
    migration.
  • Explain the causes and effects of the Mexican War.

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Southwest
  • Southwest had been settled by Spain in the 1500s
  • Catholic missions Mexico gained independence
    from Spain
  • Land is attractive to Americans
  • Came at expense of Indians and Mexicans

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Westward Movement
  • Expansionists people who favored territorial
    growth
  • Manifest Destiny expansion west
  • Trade with Mexico
  • Santa Fe Trail
  • Traded horses, mules, fur, silver for
    manufactured goods
  • Others went through Rockies Mountain Men
    California Trail (to northern California)
  • Oregon Trail branched off into Oregon

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Westward Movement cont.
  • Wagon trains journey west
  • Pulled by oxen traveled in large groups
  • Dangers - hunger, exposure, disease
  • Donner party in Sierra Nevada
  • Mormon leader, Brigham Young (Joseph Smith had
    been killed) settles around the Great Salt Lake
    (later Utah)
  • Conflicts w/Indians

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2. Texas Mexican War
  • Texas was a Mexican province
  • Americans migrate to Texas cheap, fertile land
    in exchange for being Mexican citizens,
    Catholics, no slavery
  • Stephen Austin leads settlers
  • Tensions grow Americans didnt keep bargain

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Texas cont.
  • Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana seized power and wants
    greater autonomy over Texas
  • 1835 Texans revolt create Lone Star Republic
  • Mexican army attacked garrison at the Alamo
    overran fort and massacred all prisoners (Davy
    Crockett, Jim Bowie) second attack at Goliad
  • Enraged Americans Remember the Alamo!
  • http//www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-
    us/videos/the-alamo
  • Sam Houston rallied Texans and crushed Mexican
    army at Battle of San Jacinto
  • Texan independence but border troubles

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Mexican War
  • Sam Houston president of Texas asked U.S. to
    annex Texas
  • Congress didnt want a big new slave state
  • James K. Polk becomes U.S. President (Democrat)
    favored annexation, expansion
  • Northerners would accept Texas if they got
    something
  • Compromise w/Britain they got British Columbia,
    U.S. got Oregon, Washington, Idaho

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Mexican War cont.
  • Texas annexed but U.S. wants border extended to
    Rio Grande River
  • U.S. had many advantages technology, greater
    population, industry, better trained military
  • Some famous names General Zachary Taylor,
    Winfield Scott, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant,
    William T. Sherman
  • U.S. wins every major battle the war

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3. Effects of Expansion War
  • Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
  • U.S. gains tremendous territory in Southwest
  • Mexican Cession Manifest Destiny achieved
  • Gadsden Purchase (from Mexico) gives us more land
  • Wilmot Proviso ban slavery in all new
    territories from Mexico
  • Divides Congress

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Gold Rush
  • 1848 John Sutters mill gold discovered!
  • Forty-niners flock to California
  • California Gold Rush
  • Tough conditions, competition, dangerous (no rule
    of law)
  • California applies for statehood as a free state
  • Tips the balance from 15/15 shows the effects
    of westward expansion on tensions over slavery
  • http//www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-
    us/videos/gold-rush

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