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Chapter 9 Pages 274-299

Manifest Destiny!!!. Chapter 9 Pages 274-299. Hey let’s go West!!. American Progress By John Gast. Section 1: Market Revolution. Farmers Why?. Self-Sufficiency. Specialization. Telegraph. canals. Railroads. sewing mach ine. John deere’s Steel Plow. The McCormick reaper.

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Chapter 9 Pages 274-299

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  1. Manifest Destiny!!! Chapter 9 Pages 274-299 Hey let’s go West!!

  2. American Progress By John Gast

  3. Section 1: Market Revolution • Farmers • Why? Self-Sufficiency Specialization

  4. Telegraph canals Railroads sewing machine

  5. John deere’s Steel Plow The McCormick reaper

  6. American Progress By John Gast

  7. Manifest Destiny by W. M. Cary, c. 1876

  8. Frederick Jackson Turner’s Thesis • Wrote a thesis saying that the American frontier was what made Americans different from Europeans. • The frontier = the American Dream to many. • 1812-1852 U.S. growth • 7.25 million to more than 25 million • Land in the West increased by more than the size of Europe. • America History during this period defined by the amount of land available, and the political arguments over it.

  9. "Our manifest destiny (is) to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.“ • John O' Sullivan • "Democratic Review” • 1839

  10. Manifest Destiny: The belief, dominant in the 1840”s, that American westward expansion was destined by God. • Many moved to the Western frontier, which led to conflict with Native Americans. • All went west for their own reasons but nearly all felt that they “civilizers”.

  11. The Oregon Trail – Albert Bierstadt, 1869

  12. Election of 1844 • James Knox Polk • Democrat • Tennessee Democratic Platform • Annex Texas, Occupy Oregon, no Fed money for internal improvements, Bank of U.S. • Henry Clay • Whig • Kentucky Whig Platform • Regulated currency, high tariff, one term presidency, restrictions on the Presidential veto Hesitated on Texas WINNER!!!

  13. The BACK STORY On Texas • Mexico get independence from Spain in 1823. • Very few Mexicans had moved to what is now Texas • Offered land grants to Americans if they would… • 1. Convert to Catholicism • 2. Swear Allegiance to Mexico • Mexico banned slavery in 1824. Anglos ignored it. • Mexico closed it’s borders in 1830, didn’t work. • General Santa Ana took over, sent troops to Texas. • Led to the Texas Revolution • 1835- 187 die at the Alamo, 300 executed at Goliad. • 1836- General Sam Houston captured Santa Ana at San Jacinto. Texas is Independent!!!

  14. The BACK STORY On Texas • General Santa Ana took over, sent troops to Texas. • Arrested Stephen Austin for inciting revolution. • Led to the Texas Revolution • 1835- 187 die at the Alamo, 300 executed at Goliad. • 1836- General Sam Houston captured Santa Ana at San Jacinto. Texas is Independent!!!

  15. Republic of Texas

  16. Texas asked to be annexed in 1838, but wasn’t until 1845. WHY? Northern fears that a new slave state would destroy balance in the Senate Feared War with Mexico

  17. War with Mexico • Polk becomes President in 1844 • Texas is annexed in 1845-border? • Neuces River or Rio Grande • Slidell’s Mission • Secretly sent by Polk to • Solve boundary dispute • Buy California and New Mexico • Was authorized to offer $25 Million Dollars • He gets REJECTED!!! • Polk sends General Taylor to the Rio Grande • Mexico Attacked!!! • 200 Mexican Cavalry vs. 63 American Troops • Spot Resolution

  18. Before the War

  19. DURING

  20. And after

  21. The Treaty of Gaudalupe-Hidalgo • Ends the War • Mexico loses 50% of it’s territory. • The U.S. paid $15 million for lands they got from Mexico • U.S. agreed to pay claims made against Mexico by U.S. Citizens • 1854- $10 million for the Gadsden Purchase. Why Pay?

  22. Oregon • Great Britain and the United States both have claims to Oregon. 42nd – 54th parallel. • Polk says “Fifty-four Forty or Fight”. We want it all. • Polk compromises agrees on the 49th Parallel. (Oregon Treaty of 1846)

  23. Treaty of 1846

  24. California!!! The Revolt  June 14, 1845 John C. Frémont

  25. Gold Rush Gold Discovery in California 1848 In 1849 30,000 would be miners set out overland from Missouri to CA. Another 25,000 made it by sea. Few became rich, but the hundreds of thousands arriving lead to California statehood • Comstock Lode in Nevada

  26. Compromise of 1850 • In 1850 California applied for statehood as a free state. • The south saw this as a threat to their way of life and threatened secession. • Henry Clay brokered a compromise. • California admitted as a free state. • New Mexico and Utah would vote on the slavery issue. (Popular Sovereignty) • SALE of slaves banned in Washington D.C. • Fugitive Slave Act passed Prevented civil war for 11 years

  27. The Addition of new lands renewed the debate about the spread of slavery

  28. What will we do when we run out of lands in North America?

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