Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Manifest Destiny Defined Trickles West Troubles in Texas The Mexican War, 1846-1848 Results Summary Essential Question #3: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the free Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War 8 Questions Illinois troops captured $18,000 worth of gold and this possession of Mexican general Santa Anna. They returned the gold but kept this possession.

Three questions tonight and throughout the course:What is history?What do we know about it, especially early American history? ?How do we know?

We will pursue our understanding of American history through essential questions.Essential questions- are open-ended, no single definitive answer- tie the past to the present- require analytical thinking (SHEG) and techniques- examine primary and secondary sources- must be supported by American history content

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Manifest Destiny Defined Trickles West Troubles in Texas The Mexican War, 1846-1848 Results Summary Essential Question #3: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Painting, “American Progress”, John Gast, 1872

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Louisiana Purchase, 1803

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 The American realizes that 'Progress is God.' The destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent -- to rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean... to change darkness into light and confirm the destiny of the human race... Divine task! Immortal mission! The pioneer army perpetually... strikes to the front. Empire plants itself upon the trails. - William Gilpin, American expansionist

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 On to Oregon, 1820’s – 1840’s

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Caddo people in what becomes Texas New Spain, 1819

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Mexico, 1821 New Spain, 1819

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 GTT on abandoned cabins New Spain, 1819

Requirements set by the Mexican Government for emigrants to Texas: 1. renounce US citizenship 2. convert to Catholicism 3. no use of slaves Few “Texicanos” complied with these. Mexican governors started to enforce the requirements, Texans resisted. Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848

United States, 1845 Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 James Polk, “Polk the Purposeful”

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Texas annexed into the Union, January, 1845

. . . For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure [declared war on Mexico], and to this day, regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory. Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 - U.S. Grant, “Memoirs”, 1885 “Shall this garden of beauty [Mexico] be suffered to lie dormant in its wild and useless luxuriance? . . . Myriads of enterprising Americans would flock to its rich and inviting prairies; the hum of Anglo-American industry would be heard in its valley; cities would rise upon its plains and sea-coast, and the resources and wealth of the nation be increase in incalculable degree.” - Editorial in the Illinois State Register, 1845

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 If the objective of the war with Mexico was to secure Texas in the Union, what kind of strategy would you use? How should US land and naval forces maneuver to achieve this objective?

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War 8 Questions Illinois troops captured $18,000 worth of gold and this possession of Mexican general Santa Anna. They returned the gold but kept this possession.

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Manifest Destiny Defined Trickles West Troubles in Texas The Mexican War, 1846-1848 Results Summary Essential Question #3: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the free Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Slavery?

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848 Manifest Destiny Defined Trickles West Troubles in Texas The Mexican War, 1846-1848 Results Summary Essential Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-tC2KowNw0 Red river valley Burns, the West episode 2, Henry Sager family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ATLnQbombI&t=3707s 53:45 – 1:06:18 VHS 92 Mexican war approx. 13 Big Question: To what extent did economic, social, political and technological trends in the Northern states from the 1840’s to 1861 tend to split the Union?

Race for Space: Manifest Destiny, Texas and the Mexican War, 1820’s - 1848