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Manifest Destiny. Oregon Country. Between the Pacific ocean and the Rocky Mountains north of California. The states that they came from were Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. The treaty was from Great Britain.
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Oregon Country • Between the Pacific ocean and the Rocky Mountains north of California. • The states that they came from were Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. • The treaty was from Great Britain. • The trail was 2,000miles long it stated in independence in Marry Land it crossed the Great Plains, Platte River, Snake River, And Columbia River. • “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”means The line of latitude that democrats believed should be the nations northern border of Oregon.
Texas • The conflict over Texas was when Louisiana Territory from France and it was in 1803. • Stephen Austin worked as a business person. • In 1803,The Mexicans decreed and the Americans were angered. • And Santa Anna became the president of Mexicoin 1836. • The action at the Alamo was the battle and General Lopez & De Santa Anna . • Texas declared independence at the Alamo and they were on a mission in San Antonio. • Texas –the battle of the Alamo,
Texas • The Battle of San Jacinto took place on April 21, 1836 and lasted a total of twenty minutes. Even though it lasted such a short amount of time, it still sealed the fate of three republics.A battle cry is a yell or chant taken up in battle, usually by members of the same military unit. Battle cries are not necessarily articulate, although they often aim to invoke patriotic or religious sentiment.After Texas won its independence, Jackson decided not to press for annexation because he feared a backlash in the North if he createda new slave state. • The Republic of Texas had enormous debt and a very uncertain future. Since the Texans had strong cultural ties with the United States, it was a natural progression for Texas to join the United States. • James K. Polk
New Mexico • Alta California, Texas, And Colorado. • The Mexican-American War was the first major conflict driven by the idea of "Manifest Destiny"; the belief that America had a God-given right, or destiny, to expand the country's borders from 'sea to shining sea'. This belief would eventually cause a great deal of suffering for many Mexicans, Native Americans and United States citizens. Following the earlier Texas War of Independence from Mexico, tensions between the two largest independent nations on the North American continent grew as Texas eventually became a U.S. state. Disputes over the border lines sparked military confrontation, helped by the fact that President Polk eagerly sought a war in order to seize large tracts of land from Mexico.
California And Utah • Gold can be found in trace amounts in almost all rocks and even in ocean water, but finding it in quantities large enough to make mining profitable is rare. Erosion often washes gold out of surface rocks. Gold particles are about seven times heavier than rock particles of a similar size. The California Trail was an emigrant trail of about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California. After it was established, the first half of the California Trail followed the same corridor of networked trails as the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trails, namely the valleys of the Platte, North Platte and Sweet Water Rivers to Wyoming.
