Essential Question
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Essential Question
• How did Manifest Destiny change the United States?
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Manifest Destiny
• Phrase coined by John Louis O’Sullivan in 1845
• Idea that God wanted Americans to settle all land in the west
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Squatters
• Right of settlers to live on land before it was surveyed and sold
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Farming Inventions
• John Deere – steel-bladed plow to cut sod
• Cyrus McCormick – mechanical reaper
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Oregon Trail
• Most popular route for western development
• Wagon trains hired mountain men as guides
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Oregon Trail
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Oregon Trail
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Oregon Trail
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Oregon Trail
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Oregon Trail
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Mormon Trail
• First group led by Brigham Young
• Stopped at the Great Salt Lake in Utah
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Mormon Trail
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Mormon Trail
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Mormon Trail
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California Trail
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California Trail
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Donner Party
• 1846 – trapped in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada by heavy now
• 41 died of starvation
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Butterfield Overland Mail
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Santa Fe Trail
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Santa Fe Trail
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Santa Fe Trail
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Independence for Texas
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Open for Settlement
• Government of Mexico offered land to empresarios (land agents) to bring settlers into Texas
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Stephen Austin
• The first to move into Texas
• Persuaded 1500 families to join him
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Texas Unites
• Began discussing independence from Mexico
• Stephen Austin chosen as president
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Santa Anna
• President of Mexico who declared himself dictator
• Arrested Austin when he came to negotiate
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Sam Houston
• Took charge of organizing the Texan army
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The Alamo
• 180 Texas rebels within
• Santa Anna’s army arrived in Feb. 1836
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Quote, William B. Travis
“I call on you, in the name of liberty, of patriotism, and everything dear to American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch . . . Though this call may be neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible, and die like a soldier . . . Victory or death!”
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The Alamo
• Texans held off Santa Ana’s army for 13 days before falling
• Houston’s army organized to fight
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Battle of San Jacinto
• Houston’s army surprised the Mexicans
• April 21, 1836
• Captured Santa Anna and 700 soldiers
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Republic of Texas
• Santa Anna signed a treaty that recognized Texas independence
• Sam Houston elected as first president (1836)
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Writing Assignment• Imagine you are traveling west during the
1840s. Choose one of the following and write a “postcard from the trail.” Fold a white sheet of paper in half. On the front, draw a scene from your journey (remember – use lots of color!). On the inside, write a note to relatives or friends back east.
- Oregon Trail - Santa Fe Trail- Mormon Trail - Texas- California Trail