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Impact of Mexican-American War and California Gold Rush on America's Territorial Expansion in the 1800s

Explore the effects of the Mexican-American War and California Gold Rush on America's expansion in the early/mid-1800s. Learn about key political events, social changes including immigration patterns, literary movements, and landmark events like the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Delve into the debate over slavery, the Missouri Compromise, Wilmot Proviso, and Kansas-Nebraska Act that led to the conflict in "Bleeding Kansas" and the formation of the Republican Party. Discover the significance of the California Gold Rush in shaping American history and economy during this era.

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Impact of Mexican-American War and California Gold Rush on America's Territorial Expansion in the 1800s

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  1. Manifest Destiny Section 2 Territorial Expansion What were the effects of the Mexican-American War and the California Gold Rush?

  2. What was happening in America during the early/mid 1800's?

  3. Political Events • Presidents: Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler • Harrison is first to die in office (pneumonia) • States: 26 (Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan) • Democratic-Republicans dissolve • Democrats & Whig Party arise

  4. Social Changes - Immigration • Growing movement of people to America • Britain, Ireland, Germany, China • Many ‘Push/Pull Factors’ bring people to America • Overcrowding in cities leads to prejudice • “The Know-Nothing Party” enjoys brief success

  5. Social Changes – Literature & Philosophy • The movement in European art called Romanticism stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion. • James Fenimore Cooper – Last of the Mohicans (1826) • Noah Webster – American Dictionary (1828) • Henry Thoreau – Walden (1854) • Louisa May Alcott – Little Women (1868) • Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass (1855) • Ralph Waldo Emerson – transcendentalism (people can find truth within themselves through feeling and intuition – “GUT FEELING”)

  6. America Achieves Manifest Destiny • March 1848 – Mexicans made peace with the U.S. with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • U.S. Army left Mexico City • U.S. paid Mexico $15 million • U.S. got New Mexico, California • Rio Grande River was the southern boundary of Texas • Mexicans disgusted and humiliated • Polk upset because U.S. got so little

  7. America Achieves Manifest Destiny • In Gadsden Purchase of 1853 U.S. purchased another 26,640 square miles in southern New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico for $15 million (to build a railroad)

  8. An America Free, or Slave? • Several attempts made to deal with slavery – NONE ARE SUCCESSFUL • Southerners see their slaves as property, which could be moved with them to new lands • The Missouri Compromise (1820) – Maine (FREE) and Missouri (SLAVE) enter the Union • The Compromise of 1850 – California (FREE) and Congress makes no laws regarding territories won in M/A War • Wilmot Proviso & Kansas-Nebraska Act further divide the country

  9. The Wilmot Proviso (1846) • Slavery banned in any land won from Mexico • Proposal broke up parties along sectional lines • Failed to become law Before Mexican War was over, future of SW lands caused strong debate in the U.S. 1846: Pennsylvania Whig congressman David Wilmot proposed the Wilmot Proviso

  10. Kansas-Nebraska Act I. The Nebraska Territory was divided into two parts: Nebraska (NE) and Kansas (KS).

  11. Kansas-Nebraska Act II. The people of each territory voted on whether or not to allow slavery. (popular sovereignty)

  12. * The Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri Compromise. Both territories were north of 36 , 30’ N and should NOT have been allowed to have slaves.

  13. “Bleeding Kansas” Before the vote on slavery: • Northerners crossed the border to keep KS a free state. • Southerners crossed the border to make KS a slave state. • Both sides claimed victory on the vote!

  14. What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the Missouri Compromise? The Kansas-Nebraska Act illegally repealed the Missouri Compromise.

  15. What was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Civil war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers – over 200 people died

  16. What adjective was used to describe Kansas in the mid-1850s? “Bleeding Kansas”

  17. Wilmot Proviso & The Kansas-Nebraska Act will be the issues on which the Republican Party will be founded.

  18. Discovery of gold in California tips the balance of power!

  19. The California Gold Rush • John Sutter was a Swiss immigrant to California in 1839 – owned 1000’s of acres, cattle, and many people working for him • In late 1847 Sutter hired James Marshall to build a saw mill on the American River to provide lumber for Sutter’s growing ranch

  20. The California Gold Rush On January 24, 1848 with the sawmill almost finished Marshall looked down and …"I reached my hand down and picked it up; it made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold. The piece was about half the size and shape of a pea. Then I saw another."

  21. California Gold Rush • News of the gold was not spread by Sutter or Marshall • News was spread by San Francisco merchant Samuel Brannan • News spread to the east coast and was published in newspapers

  22. The California Gold Rush • Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune: "Fortune lies upon the surface of the earth as plentiful as the mud in our streets. We look for an addition within the next four years equal to at least One Thousand Million of Dollars to the gold in circulation."

  23. The California Gold Rush By 1849 the country was gripped in gold “fever” Farmers left their fields, merchants closed their shops, soldiers left their posts – and all made plans to go to California

  24. The California Gold Rush The California Gold Rush was a mass migration of people from the eastern U.S. and around the world looking for easy riches Called forty-niners, the gold seekers swelled the population of California from 14,000 in 1847 to 225,000 in five years

  25. The California Gold Rush Early miners able to pan for gold along the rivers of northern California – called placer mining Conditions hard in the mining camps – no law, no sanitation, prices for food and supplies very high Cholera, dysentery rampant

  26. The California Gold Rush • Towns that started were accurately named • Hangtown, Gouge Eye, Rough and Ready, Whiskeytown – places to avoid, if not for the gold • Few miners got rich – merchants and service people got rich • When mining in the rivers played out, hard rock mining started

  27. San Francisco More than half of the forty-niners came to California by ship – through San Francisco Miners needed supplies, San Francisco was where they were bought

  28. What were the effects on San Francisco?

  29. Effect of Gold Rush on SF Legend spoke that you could walk from here to here without getting your feet wet, due to the number of abandoned ships SF Bay became choked with hundreds of abandoned ships

  30. More Ship Masts Demonstrate the Abandonment in SF Bay

  31. Effects of the Gold Rush • American miners forced out Mexicans and Chinese miners to reduce competition, • legislature levied a $20/month “foreign miners” tax to discourage miners from other countries. • Discouraged Chinese miners moved to San Francisco and formed Chinatown. • Native Americans either died from European diseases or were hunted down by miners – • In 1870, their population declined from 150,000 in 1860 to 58,000 in 1870.

  32. Effects of the Gold Rush • Californios (Mexican Californians) lost their lands • California applied for statehood as free state • Union comprised of 15 free states, 15 slave • Admission of California in 1850 intensified debate over slavery

  33. The Gold Rush upset the delicate balance between free & slave - everyone was affected, and no one was spared from its effects!

  34. The 1848 Presidential Election Results Winner

  35. Territorial Growth to 1853

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