Nationalism, Expansion

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Nationalism, Expansion Reform
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Nationalism

• Nationalism pride / love for ones country
• Nationalism fueled by pride in rapid settlement gt
  some controversy
• Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Missouri Slave state
• Maine Free state
• Balance between free slave states
• No slavery in northern part of Louisiana
  Territory
• Sectionalism ones section / region is more
  important than the whole

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Missouri Compromise
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Reform

• Second Great Awakening
• Religious revival in 1820s 30s
• Similar to First Great Awakening (1700s)
• Reform Era
• Temperance no alcohol
• Education needed to make citizens
• Prison Dix wanted standard care

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Women Reform

• Religion
• Allowed women to participate
• Worked to improve society
• Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
• 1st womens rights convention in U.S.
• Women not allowed to vote restricted rights
• Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Marked beginning of modern womens movement

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Abolition

• Abolition
• Movement to end slavery
• Antislavery Efforts
• Revolts (Nat Turner)
• Underground Railroad (Harriet Tubman)
• Frederick Douglass
• Leading abolitionist
• Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Supported womens equality

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Expansion

• Manifest Destiny
• - Americas belief that it was their God-given
  right to settle land in North America
• - From Atlantic to Pacific Oceans

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California

• Bear Flag Revolt
• CA citizens revolted against Mexico in
  Mexican-American War
• Republic of CA 1846
• 1848
• Gold rush
• 1849
• Thousands migrate to CA (Forty-niners)
• 1850
• Population boom gt 31st state

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The West Grows

• UTAH

• OREGON

• Mormon Trail
• Utah territory (Great Salt Lake)
• 1846 - 1857
• Joseph Smith
• Founder of Later Day Saints
• Murdered
• Brigham Young
• Looking for peace to practice religion
• Led both govt church

• Pres. James Polk
• Wanted Oregon pro expansion
• Disputed 54 40
• Oregon Treaty
• British gain control of fur ports in War of 1812
• 49 parallel boundary
• Wars in Texas Mexico
• Oregon Trail

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Mormon trail
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OREGON TRAIL
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Wagons used on the Oregon Trail
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Texas

• Stephen Austin
• 1823 established colony
• 1830 30,000 settlers
• Included enslaved African Americans 4,000
  Tejanos
• Texas Revolution
• Texans want independence from Mexico
• Mexican demands not enforced gt Mexican govt
  decrease independence of Texans
• New Pres. of Mexico Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
  suspended some powers
• March 2, 1836 Texas declared independence

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The Alamo

• To Santa Ana
• Alamo symbol of Texas defiance
• To Texans
• Alamo symbol of independence liberty

• Most famous battle of Texas Revolution
• 187 Texans v. 5,000 Mexicans
• General Santa Ana bombarded Texans for 12 days
• All 187 died

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Early map of Republic of Texas
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Texas Annexed

• Remember the Alamo
• April 21, 1836 Battle of San Jacinto
• Gen. Santa Ana captured forced to sign treaty
  recognizing Texan independence
• Not recognized by Mexico because signed under
  distress

• Sam Houston
• President of Republic of Texas
• Wanted to join Union
• U.S. reactions mixed (debt, slavery, manifest
  destiny)
• Pres. Polk
• Texas annexation issue in election of 1844
• Pro-annexation
• Texas became a state Dec. 29, 1845

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Manifest destiny
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War With Mexico

• CAUSES

• EFFECTS

• Annexation of Texas
• Mexico broke diplomatic relations
• Boundary dispute
• Rio Grande river 30 million proposal but
  Mexicans refused to meet
• Manifest destiny expansion

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
• Mexican Cession
• Mexico no claim to Texas
• Gave up New Mexico, CA, Nevada, Arizona, Utah,
  Colorado, Wyoming
• Gadsen Purchase (1853)
• US paid 15 million for land