Manifest Destiny

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Manifest Destiny
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Manifest Destiny

• Belief America should expand from coast to coast
• President James K. Polk used this as his campaign
  idea
• Other presidents had also believed the same thing

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Moving West
Fur Trappers went first blazing trails across the
Rocky Mountains
Men like Jim Bridger, Jim Beckwourth, Jedediah
Smith brought civilization into the wilderness
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Pioneers Settlers followed the Mountain Men
They brought their families for a new life.
They moved to the valleys of Oregon, Utah,
California in the 1840s 1850s
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Trails Westward
Oregon Trail Mormon Trail California
Trail Sante Fe Trail
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Religious Freedom Mormons go The Great Salt Lake
in Utah
Mormons murdered by mobs of angry citizens
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Mormon Journey Westward
Mormon leader Brigham Young leads the west to
escape bad treatment
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Stephen F. Austin Sam Houston Texas
Revolution Leaders
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Battle of San Jacinto Wins Texas Independence 1836
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Republic of Texas Annexed in 1845
Mexico Texas didnt agree on the borders of
Texas
When the U.S. annexed Texas, war began between
The United States Mexico
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President Polk Wins on the promise of Manifest
Destiny

• Promised to add Texas
• Promised to add Oregon
• Promised to add California
• Fifty-four forty or Fight!

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Mexican War U.S. vs Mexico1846-1848
Gen. Zachary Taylor wins the Battle of Buena
Vista
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Gen. Winfield Scott Captures Mexico City
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Ends the Mexican War
• U.S. pays Mexico 15,000,000
• Mexico cedes gives the U.S. the Mexican Cession
  (California, New Mexico, agrees to The Rio Grande
  as the Texas border

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California Gold Rush 1849
Gold was discovered Sutters Mill
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Miners rushed to California in the Gold Rush
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Effects of the California Gold Rush

• California asks to become a free state this
  causes more sectionalism
• Californios have property taken by Americans
• Native Americans die from disease and fighting
• Chinese foreign miners are forced to pay a
  Foreign Miner tax

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Oregon Added to the Union
Great Britain the United States agree to split
the Oregon Territory
President completed his promise to add Texas,
Oregon, California
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Manifest Destiny Completes the United States

• Gadsden Purchase added in 1853 from Mexico
• Political promises by Polk help Americans to add
  territory
• Religious freedom urges Mormons to move west
• Economic opportunities brings people to find
  farmland or gold