MANIFEST DESTINYAnna Graves, Period 5

MANIFEST DESTINY

Manifest Destiny- belief that America was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific

John L. O` Sullivan, 1845

OREGON COUNTRY

Huge area of land between the Pacific and the Rocky Mountains north of California

Oregon, Washington, Idaho, parts of Montana and Wyoming

Treaty with Great Britain Oregon Trail: 2000 miles, Mississippi Valley,

Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, rivers- North Platte, South Platte, Columbia, Snake

Polk’s slogan; States should have sole ownership

TEXAS

Texans won their independence from Mexico and asked to be admitted to the United States.

1803, when U.S. bought Louisiana Territory He asked Mexican government to confirm

the land grant, recruited 300 families to settle the Brazos and Colorado rivers, started colony, he was a leader among settlers in Texas

They stopped all immigration from the U.S.; Americans were angry

General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Mission in San Antonio; a battle between

Texas and Mexico March 2, 1836; Washington on the Brazos

TEXAS CONTINUED….

Sam Houston Battle of San Jacinto: April 12, 1836;

“Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!”; Texas killed 600 soldiers and captured 700 including Santa Anna, Santa Anna recognized Texas independence in a treaty

Jackson refused to annex Texas, because adding another slave state would upset the balance of free and slave states in Congress.

December 29, 1845 James K. Polk

WAR WITH MEXICO New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and parts of

Colorado and Wyoming The route William Becknell took to Santa Fe; Missouri

River, Arkansas River, Rocky Mountains, New Mexico Territory

Americans began settling the region Spanish mission system Mild The nation would be safely bordered by the sea

instead of a foreign power Rio Grande Nueces river To get the cabinet to agree to a war with Mexico;

They agreed that the attack was grounds for war with Mexico

WAR WITH MEXICO CONTINUED….

He was very against it, because he thought that if the U.S. expanded west then Southern states would bring slavery into the new territories.

Bear Flag General Winfield Scott Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 1848 Rio Grande New Mexico and California Gadsden Purchase Arizona and New Mexico

NEW SETTLERS IN CALIFORNIA AND UTAH

Gold Rush: 1849; California; forty-niners Sierra Nevada Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia and

China (America) boomtown- community experiencing a

sudden growth in business or population Grew from a small village to a city with about

20,000 people. Levi Strauss: Jewish immigrant; created

denim pants

RELIGIOUS REFUGE IN UTAH

Mormon Joseph Smith Killed by a mob in 1844 Brigham Young Great Salt Lake 1896

CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF WESTWARD MOVEMENT

CausesAmericans accept Manifest

Destiny.

As the East becomes more crowded, Americans want

more land.

The West contains furs, lumber and precious metals.

Effects Native Americans are forced off their lands.

The United States wars with Mexico.

The U.S. extends from the Atlantic to the

Pacific.