Expansionism rapid settlement

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Expansionismrapid settlement economic
development of the West

• Instructor Carol Jean Cox

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EXPANSIONISM

• Advance to the Mississippi
• Manifest Destiny
• Texas Independence and Annexation
• The War Against Mexico
• Westward Expansionism

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Expanding Settlement, 1810-1850
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EXPANSIONISM

• The Advance to the Mississippi
• Harrison Land Act of 1800
• Federal Land sales
• New States - Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois
• Alabama, Missouri
• 160 acres for .50 cents an acre
• 4 yrs to pay at 1.50 per acre
• Great Plantations appeared in Alabama and
  Mississippi
• Planters from Virginia, the Carolinas
• Georgia moved inland

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EXPANSIONISM

• The Advance to the Mississippi
• Indian Removal East of the Mississippi
• The Trail of Tears
• John C. Calhoun, Monroe's Secretary of War
  established a resettlement policy of Indians
  beyond Missouri Rivers
• by 1830's completed
• William Henry Harrison destroyed Indian power in
  Northwest.
• Andrew Jackson crushed the Creeks Cherokees of
  the Southwest

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EXPANSIONISM

• Advance to the Mississippi
• Manifest Destiny
• Texas Independence and Annexation
• The War with Mexico
• Westward Expansionism

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EXPANSIONISM

• Manifest Destiny
• "Our manifest destiny (is) to overspread the
• continent allotted by Providence for the free
• development of our yearly multiplying millions."
• John O' Sullivan
• "Democratic Review
• 1845
• Zinn pg. 152

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EXPANSIONISM

• Advance to the Mississippi
• Manifest Destiny
• Texas Independence and Annexation
• The War Against Mexico
• Westward Expansionism

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EXPANSIONISM

• Texas Independence
• American Immigration to Texas
• Independence Declared
• Battle of the Alamo
• Lone Star Republic 1836

Sam Houston (Portrait Gallery)
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EXPANSIONISM

• Texas Annexation 1845
• The Democrats and Expansion
• Polk Elected
• U.S. agrees to annex Texas 1845
• Texas /Mexico Border Dispute
• U.S. states Rio Grande River
• Mexico claims Nueces River
• Mexican order to prohibit U.S. immigration
  to CA
• Bear Flag Revolt 1845

James K. Polk (Portrait Gallery)
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EXPANSIONISM

• Advance to the Mississippi
• Manifest Destiny
• Texas Independence and Annexation
• The War Against Mexico
• Westward Expansion

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EXPANSIONISM

• The War Against Mexico 1846-1848
• War and Expansionism
• Zachary Taylor advances from Nueces to Rio Grande
• 11 Americans killed by Mexicans on 3/8/46
• U.S. declared war
• 1700 Americans died, 4000 Mexicans,
• most die from disease
• Zinn p.162
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo July 4, 1848
• Texas, CA New Mexico 1 million sq. miles
  become a part of the United States
• U.S. paid 15 million

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EXPANSIONISM
The Mexican War, 1846-1848
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EXPANSIONISM

• Advance to the Mississippi
• Manifest Destiny
• Texas Independence and Annexation
• The War Against Mexico
• Westward Expansion

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EXPANSIONISM

• Westward Expansion
• Early Explorers
• Lewis Clark
• Zeb Pike
• Trappers
• Hudson Bay Co.
• American Fur Co.
• Rocky Mt. Fur Co.
• Mountain Men
• Jed Smith
• Josiah Walker
• Surveyors/Scouts
• John C. Fremont

1820-1840s
Western Trails
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EXPANSIONISM
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EXPANSIONISM

• Westward Expansion
• The Mormons 1830-1851
• Early Settlers/ Conestoga Wagons
• 1840s to Oregon CA
• Applegates, Lassens, Bidwells, Bartlesons, Donner
  Party

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EXPANSIONISM

• Westward Expansion
• Oregon Territory
• Joint Occupation 
• The Westward Migration
• The Oregon Trail 
• Growing American Settlements

The Oregon Boundary, 1846
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• Compromise over Oregon

54 40 or Fight!
Britain relinquished all territorial claims 1846
The Oregon Boundary, 1846
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EXPANSIONISM

• Westward Expansion
• Gold Discovery in California 1848
• In 1849 30,000 would be miners set out
  overland from Missouri to CA
• Another 25,000 made it by sea
• Few became rich, but the hundreds
• of thousands pushed CA
• towards statehood

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The Gold Rush
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The Mother Lode
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EXPANSIONISM

• Westward Expansion
• Gadsden Purchase
• bought from Mexico for 10 mill. 1853
• Mail routes/Pony Express 1860-1861
• Transcontinental Railroad 1869

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EXPANSIONISM
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EXPANSIONISM

• Westward Expansion
• Early Explorers
• Trappers
• Mountain Men
• Westward Migration
• Early Settlers
• Conestoga Wagon Trains
• Mormon Settlement
• Oregon Territory
• Gold Discoveries
• Mail routes/Pony Express
• Transcontinental Railroad

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EXPANSIONISM

• Advance to the Mississippi
• Manifest Destiny
• Texas Independence and Annexation
• The War Against Mexico
• Westward Expansion

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Expansionismrapid settlement economic
development of the West

• Instructor Carol Jean Cox