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Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny. Anna Graves, Period 5. Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny- belief that America was destine 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 California

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Manifest Destiny

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  1. Manifest Destiny Anna Graves, Period 5

  2. Manifest Destiny • Manifest Destiny- belief that America was destine to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific • John L. O` Sullivan, 1845

  3. Oregon Country • Huge area of land between the Pacific and the Rocky Mountains north 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

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

  7. War with Mexico continued…. • Bear Flag • General Winfield Scott • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 1848 • Rio Grande • New Mexico and California • Gadsden Purchase • Arizona and New Mexico

  8. New Settlers in California and Utah • Gold Rush: 1849; California; forty-niners

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