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Today’s Goal 2-November-10

Today’s Goal 2-November-10. How did Manifest Destiny lead to War with Mexico? Did Manifest Destiny unite or divide the United States?. MANIFEST DESTINY. What was manifest destiny? Do you think it would be a uniting or dividing factor for the United States?

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Today’s Goal 2-November-10

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  1. Today’s Goal 2-November-10 • How did Manifest Destiny lead to War with Mexico? • Did Manifest Destiny unite or divide the United States?

  2. MANIFEST DESTINY • What was manifest destiny? • Do you think it would be a uniting or dividing factor for the United States? • Follow along on the Cause & Effect timeline while you take your notes today…

  3. History Memory Bubble Concepts Quick Identification • Anti-Slavery Expansion Plan • Rio Grande Border • Territorial Acquisition • New Mexico/California • Annexation of Texas • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • Gadsden Purchase • Wilmot Proviso • Mexican War • Transcontinental Railroad Route • Southern Arizona/New Mexico • Going to be a Slave State • Purchase money for Free Soil

  4. Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail MAIN Link MAIN Link CENTRAL THEME MAIN Link MAIN Link Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail

  5. Mexico • Newly independent country – 1821 • Economic struggles • A radical solution • COTTON and Americans! • How did Americans grow cotton? • Mexico and slavery… • Texan Uprising • The Lone Star Republic – 1836 • How is this uprising consistent with SOUTHERN politics?

  6. Tippecanoe and Tyler too… • Election of 1840 • Whig Party • William Henry Harrison’s Inaugural • THE Texas question • Tyler too… • John Tyler • Whig??? • Signed annexation agreement with Texas - 1844 • If Manifest Destiny existed why not Texas?

  7. James K. Polk • Dark Horse candidate in 1844. • 54°40’ or Fight • Polk embodies Manifest Destiny…it is HIS only issue. • Guess who he beats? • Clay, again!

  8. Congress Annexed Texas 1845But what WAS Texas?

  9. How did Manifest Destiny lead to War with Mexico? Did Manifest Destiny unite or divide the United States? • United behind a cause = Manifest Destiny • Fought a war to expand Territory – Mexico did not bend to AMERICAN Manifest Destiny • The US WON that war! • Acquired vast amounts of new territory • The US opened Pandora’s box – New Territory Same OLD questions! • A generation of young military school graduates got REAL battle training. (Lee, Grant, Johnston, Bragg, Longstreet, McClellan, Jackson)

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