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NOTES: Expansion

NOTES: Expansion. * Manifest Destiny & $ Oregon Country Drawn by fur trade Oregon Trail : overland route from Missouri to Oregon. JUST B/C ITS INTERESTING Many died on journey The Donner Party story – stuck in snowstorm and resorted to cannibalism to survive. Mmmmm I taste like

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NOTES: Expansion

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  1. NOTES: Expansion

  2. * Manifest Destiny & $ • Oregon Country • Drawn by fur trade • Oregon Trail: overland route from Missouri to Oregon

  3. JUST B/C ITS INTERESTING • Many died on journey • The Donner Party story – stuck in snowstorm and resorted to cannibalism to survive Mmmmm I taste like Chicken!!

  4. Mexico – encourages American immigration • Santa Fe Trail: trade route from Missouri to Santa Fe, NM • Drawn by cotton land

  5. 3. Missouri Compromise = Fight over LA purchase land • North of Missouri = free • South of Missouri = slave • All other new land in the future = free

  6. Closed off to slavery ME Oregon Country Unorganized Territory New Spain (Mexico) MO Arkansas Territory Missouri Compromise Line 36*30’N

  7. * Background on Texas 1. Mexico closes borders to Americans (b/c oppose slavery) a) Americans IGNORE … come illegally b) Americans outnumber Mexicans 10:1

  8. General Santa Anna = dictator of Mexico • Orders Americans be disarmed and deported • 200 TX vs. 4,000 Mexicans fight at Alamo … Mexicans win • - those that surrender = shot! Hi, I’m General Santa Anna

  9. 3. Other Texans = inspired • “Remember the Alamo” = remember the bravery and brutal • Attack / defeat Santa Anna … Texas = indep.

  10. * Mexican War (US vs. Mex.)

  11. Causes • Manifest destiny: belief that the US was destined to rule all of N. Am. • Southern desire to add slave states • Mexico refuses to sell CA • Mexico offended when US annexes TX

  12. OMG its complete!!! • 2. Effects • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • - Rio Grande = southern border of US • - Mexico cedes (gives up) CA & NM • b) Gadsden Purchase …final land deal to seal continental US • c) Inc. Sectional Tension – fight over new land • - Wilmot Proviso – failed bill to stop expansion of slavery in lands from Mex.

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