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9.2 - Manifest Destiny

Main Idea. Essential Question. 9.2 - Manifest Destiny . What factors compelled settlers to move West during Manifest Destiny?. Objectives. The Frontier Draws Settlers. Jefferson envisioned that America would become an “empire of liberty” across the continent

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9.2 - Manifest Destiny

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  1. Main Idea • Essential Question 9.2 - Manifest Destiny What factors compelled settlers to move West during Manifest Destiny?

  2. Objectives

  3. The Frontier Draws Settlers • Jefferson envisioned that America would become an “empire of liberty” across the continent • In the 1840s and 1850s, many Americans felt that God had "manifestly" destined the American people to spread their democratic institutions over the entire continent and over South America as well • Democratic Party embraces Manifest Destiny because it could expand the number of slave states • Expansion fever grips the country as national pride swells • Manifest Destiny – • Webster-Ashburn Treaty – • Established stronger diplomatic ties with Britain to settle disputes

  4. Americans Headed West To…

  5. Settlers and Native Americans • As settlers moved West, Native communities were disrupted once more. Some Natives tried to maintain ties to their heritage, some assimilated • The Black Hawk War – • Chief Black Hawk believed he was destined to lead his people in a rebellion against the US, who had taken his people “prisoner” • Treaty of Fort Laramie –

  6. How did Manifest Destiny impact Native Americans? 1. It was2. Not good

  7. The Mormon Migration • Mormons – • Joseph Smith – • Smith murdered by mob angry at Mormon polygamy • Brigham Young – • Exodus was an attempt to avoid religious persecution

  8. Traveling West Santa Fe Trail – Wagons rode together in caravans to avoid threat of bandits and Natives Oregon Trail – Diseases proved deadly over grueling trail Britain controlled portion north of Columbia River.  By 1844 5,000 Americans settled south of Columbia River.  British had less population but it did not want to give up its land claims. Dispute became issue in 1844 election

  9. Polk Takes Office • James K. Polk fashioned himself as a disciple of Andrew Jackson, even fashioning himself as “Young Hickory.” Before his Presidency, he was Governor of Tennessee and the Speaker of the House of Representatives • James K. Polk – • Defeats Whig Party candidate Henry Clay for Presidency • “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight” – • Canadian border extended to Oregon, resolving the dispute. The boundary with Mexico would prove more problematic • Although the independent Treasury did restrict the reckless speculative expansion of credit, it also tended to create a new set of economic problems. In periods of prosperity, revenue surpluses accumulated in the Treasury, reducing hard money circulation, tightening credit, and restraining even legitimate expansion of trade and production.

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