Manifest Destiny

1. Manifest Destiny By Pierson Swanger 4th period

2. Manifest destiny • The belief that the united states should have the right to own land from sea to shining sea. • The slogan was created by John L. Sullivan. It was created in 1845

3. Oregon country • It is a large amount of land between the Pacific coast and the Rocky Mountains and just north of California. • Washington and Oregon were the states that came from this territory. • It was given to us in the Adams Onis treaty with Great Britain. • The journey was 2000 miles long, it started in the Mississippi Valley. It whet over the Rocky Mountains, great plains, Colombia river, Platt river, and snake river . • Fifty-four forty or fight is the line of latitude that was the boundary.

4. Texas • Main idea is that Texans won their independence from Mexico and asked to be admitted to the united states. • The conflict began in 1803 • Recruited 300 Americans to start a colony in Texas. • An official order that stopped immigration from the united states. This angered the Texans. • General Santa Anna became president of Mexico. • The Alamo was catholic mission, Texan forces were barricaded in and were attacked for 12 days. • Independence was declared March 2, 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos. • Sam Houston was the commander and chief.

5. Battle of San Jacinto • This battle occurred on April 21 near Houston • The battle cry was “Remember the Alamo” • At the end of the battle Santa Anna signed a treaty recognizing Texas as independent. • He refused because the addition of another slave state would upset the balance between free and slave states. • Texas became a state on December 29, 1845. • The president at the time was James K. Polk.

6. War with New MEXICO • Nevada, New Mexico ,California ,Arizona, and Colorado, all came from Mexico. • The Santa Fe Trail crossed the Missouri river, crossed the prairies and Arkansas river. • The trade caused Americans to settle in the region. • The culture was affected by the Spanish missionaries that settled there. • He said the climate was mild. • Some settlers agreed that it was better because we were safely boarded by ocean on both sides. • US insisted that the boarder of Texas was the Rio Grande. • Mexico insisted that it was Nueces river. • They called a meeting to discuss the war with Mexico they agreed that it was grounds for war. They passed a declaration of war against Mexico. • Fredrick Douglass believed it was disgraceful and crude. • California used the bear flag republic. • Polk sent General Winfield Scott. • The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. • The boarder of Texas was the Rio Grande. • Mexico gave us California and New Mexico. • Gadsden purchase was in 1853 . • The purchase gave us New Mexico and Arizona.

7. New settlers in California and Utah. • The gold rush was in 1849 in California. • People who came to the mines were called forty-niners. • They crossed the Sierra Nevada mountains. • Other Forty-niners were from Mexico, south America, Europe, Australia, China. • Boomtowns are communities experiencing a sudden growth in population and business. • It grew from a tiny village to a booming city. • Levi Strauss was a Jewish immigrant. He created denim jeans.

8. Religious refuge in Utah • The religion was the Mormons. • The founder was Joseph Smith. • He was told to move from New York because people didn’t approve. • Brigham Young took over as head of he Mormons. • The Mormons settled in the Great Salt Lake in present day Nevada. • Utah became a state in 1896.

9. Cause and effect cause effect • Americans Accept Manifest Destiny. • As the east becomes more crowded, Americans want more land. • The West contains furs, lumber, and precious metals. • Native Americans are forced off their land. • The United States wars with Mexico. • The U.S. extends from the Pacific to the Atlantic.