Oregon

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Oregon Manifest Destiny
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Where we left off.
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A new political party

• The Whigs
• Former Republicans Jackson Haters
• 3 presidential nominees
• Split the vote
• Didnt work
• Martin Van Buren elected president
• Republican

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Trail of Tears

• Seminoles
• Only Native Americans to resist successfully.
• Descendants still live there today.
• By 1824 only a few scattered Native American
  groups lived east of the Mississippi River.
• Gave up 100 million acres
• Got 68 million and 32 million acres

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5 Civilized Tribes

• Initially U.S. Army built forts to help protect
  them.
• Developed their own constitutions and governments.

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Panic of 1837

• Control over state banks vanished.
• No body backed bank notes.
• Federal government did not accept them.
• Severe depression
• Banks failed, 1,000 businesses closed, workers
  lost jobs, farmers lost land.

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• Van Buren didnt help
• Laissez-faire government should interfere as
  little as possible.
• 1840- Independent treasury
• Place for government money
• Stopped further crisis

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Whigs in Power

• Depression allowed Whigs to win.
• William Henry Harrison
• War of 1812 War Hero
• John Tyler President

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John Tyler Presidency

• Clay and Webster couldnt control him
• Wouldnt bring back the Bank of the United States
• Whig leaders kicked him out of the party
• Set boundary lines between Canada and Maine
• Maine to Minnesota

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The Whigs

• 1844- James K. Polk
• Democrat
• 1848- Zachary Tyler
• Whig
• Whigs divided regionally
• Divided over slavery

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The Northwest
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Oregon Country

• Between Pacific Ocean and Rocky Mountains.
• North of California
• 4 nations claimed Oregon Territory
• Spain, Russia, England, and America

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Mountain Men

• Adventurers of the American West.
• Fur traders first to live in Oregon country.

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Mountain Men

• Adventurers of the American West.
• Fur traders first to live in Oregon country.
• Eventually couldnt make money
• Some moved to Oregon and settled on farms.
• Some became guides.
• Santa Fe Trail
• California Trail
• Oregon Trail

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Oregon and Manifest Destiny

• 1830s economic trouble in the East
• fertile lands in the Oregon
• Dr. Marcus Narcissa Whitman
• First settlers
• Built a mission
• Provide medical care, spread Christianity

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The Trip West

• Emigrants
• People who leave their country
• 1843 about 1,000 people made the 2,000 mile
  journey
• Prairie Schooners canvas-colored wagons w/
  supplies
• Started in Missouri
• Through Great Plains, through South Pass of the
  Rocky Mountains, north along the Snake and
  Columbia Rivers

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Manifest Destiny
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Americas Vision

• Model of freedom and democracy

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New American Vision

• SPREAD freedom by settling the entire continent.

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Expansion to the Pacific was as certain as the
Mississippi River flowing to the sea.
- John Q. Adams 1819
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• Manifest Destiny the belief that the United
  States was destined by God to extend its
  boundaries to the Pacific Ocean.

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James K. Polk

• 1844 Election
• Central Issue Border
• Fifty-Four Forty of Fight
• 1846- Compromise with England
• Set border
• 49th Parallel

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TAKEAWAYS
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Where is Oregon Country?
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Who were the first adventurers out West?

• How did they make money?

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Who were the first settlers?

• What happened
• to them?

Why?
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What are emigrants?
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What is Manifest Destiny?
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Who was President?