What is the frontier

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What is the frontier?

• Is it accurate to describe the pioneer as
  crucial to the American spirit?

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Western expansion, 1830s

• Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny prompt
  westward push early 19th C
  
• Texas Lone Star Republic, cotton industry spur
  migration to southwest, 1820s-30s
  
• Indian removal Jacksonian policy devastates
  Cherokees, southern tribes
  
• Florida Seminoles resist successfully

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Oregon trail CA Gold Rush

• 1840s Oregon Fever grips pioneer communities
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• Conflict bet. GB US over Oregon Country
• CA Gold Rush 1848 Forty-Niners change
  American history
  
• California est. as US state by 1850 quickly
  vital to national economy, character
  
• http//www.goldrush.com/joann/ (women gold
  rush)
  

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Mexican-American War, 1846-1848

• Popular support for manifest destiny
• Desire to annex Texas, California spur pres. Polk
  to act against Mexico
  
• War is divisive, northerners, abolitionists
  outraged justifiable?
  
• Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo secures American
  dominion in Pacific west
  
• New territory will lead to significant questions
  over slavery expansion,
  
• sectional divide enhanced

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