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Westward Movement

Westward Movement. What Opportunities and Conflicts Emerged as Americans Moved Westward?. Manifest Destiny. First coined by newspaper editor, John O’Sullivan in 1845.

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Westward Movement

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  1. Westward Movement What Opportunities and Conflicts Emerged as Americans Moved Westward?

  2. Manifest Destiny

  3. First coined by newspaper editor, John O’Sullivan in 1845. • ".... the right of our manifest destiny to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providencehas given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federaltive development of self-governmententrusted to us. It is right such as that of the tree to the space of air and the earth suitable for the full expansion of its principle and destiny of growth." • A myth of the West as a land of romance and adventure emerged.

  4. “American Progress” by John Gast, 1872

  5. Westward Movement What territories were in the west that drew people to them?

  6. Texas Independence (1836-1845)

  7. Texas Declaration of Independence

  8. The Republic of Texas

  9. The Battle of the Alamo

  10. Overland Immigration to the West • Between 1840 and 1860, more than250,000 people made the trekwestward.

  11. The Oregon Trail – Albert Bierstadt, 1869

  12. Trails Westward

  13. The Doomed Donner Party April, 1846 – April, 1847

  14. The Doomed Donner Party CANNIBALISM ! ! Margaret Patrick John Breen Breen Breen • Of the 83 members of the Donner Party, only 45 survived to get to California! James Reed & Wife

  15. The Oregon Dispute: 54’ 40º or Fight! • By the mid-1840s,“Oregon Fever” wasspurred on by thepromise of free land. • The joint British-U. S.occupation ended in1846.

  16. The Bear Flag Republic The Revolt  June 14, 1845 John C. Frémont

  17. The Mexican War (1846-1848)

  18. The Slidell Mission: Nov., 1845 • Mexican recognition of the Rio Grande River as the TX-US border. • US would forgive American citizens’claims against the Mexican govt. • US would purchase the New Mexicoarea for $5,000,000. • US would California at any price. John Slidell

  19. The Mexican War (1846-1848)

  20. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848 Nicholas Trist,American Negotiator

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