Day 1:

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Day 1

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• Define Destiny

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Land Acquired between 1783-1867
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What is Manifest Destiny??

• Comes from ideas of American Exceptionalism
• America is unique and different in a good way
  from the rest of the world
• Moral superiority
• Continentalism We should
• own the continent
• Religious and Racial overtones!
• Belief that we are a Christian nation, and god
  wants us to
• Pagan Indians have no right to the land they live
  on
• Belief in the superiority of Anglo-Saxon people
  over Indians

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Manifest Destiny

• Manifest Destiny
• belief that the United States had a mission to
  expand its borders from the Atlantic to the
  Pacific Ocean

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Early Manifest Destiny

• Background Info.
• After the French-Indian War, Great Britain put
  land west of the Appalachians off limits
• Proclamation Line of 1763
• But, who stands to loose if the lands are
  reserved for Native Americans?
• And, who benefits?

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Proclamation Line What was it?

• Resulted from Revolutionary War
• Why did we fight it?
• Land speculators wanted to take land West of the
  Ohio Valley
• Replaced the King with a government of
  businessmen
• To benefit the businessmen

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Western Expansion

• Americans spill west over the Appalachians
• Settle in Old Northwest
• Slaveholders help establish first slave free zone
• Move into French Louisiana
• Napoleon is busy in Europe
• Offers to sell for money 15 million/.42 cents
  per acre
• Why should the US purchase Louisiana?

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Cherokee Removal

• Cherokee Indians live in huge area of land
• Had given up much to remain in homeland
• Why would whites want Cherokee land?
• Problem for US literate, had alphabet,
  newspaper, settled
• Removed by President Jackson
• Trail of Tears (1836-1839)

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Day 2

• Q A Session
• What 2 ideas was Manifest Destiny based on?
• What was Manifest Destiny?
• What 2 groups benefitted from Manifest Destiny?

• WARNING
• PLEASE see US map on the back side of your notes,
  and follow directions as you view the next few
  slides. There will be a Homework assignment
  connected to this information!

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Texas War of Independence
TEXAS WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

• Americans began moving into Texas in the 1820s
  and brought their slaves with them.
• War fought by Texans against Mexico because they
  believed their rights had been violated.
• Won by Texans in 1836 and requests to enter the
  U.S.

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Texas War of Independence
TEXAS WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

• President Jackson and Van Buren refused to
  recognize Texas statehood because of slavery.
• Texas became its own country from 1836 to 1845.
• Texas entered as a U.S. state in 1845.

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Mexican War
MEXICAN WAR
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Mexican War

• Causes
• Manifest Destiny
• California
• Texas statehood, 1845
• Mexico refusing to sell California
• Border dispute
• Effects
• US receives Mexican Cession
• (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
• Disputes over expansion of slavery will lead to
  the Civil War

MEXICAN WAR
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Oregon dispute
Oregon Territory

• Treaty with Great Britain in 1846
• President Polk campaign slogan was 54,40 or
  fight
• Compromised with British and divided the Oregon
  Country at the 49th parallel
• Resources?

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Winners, losers? Check Your Notes!

• Land speculators
• Can sell land to settlers for a profit
• Slaveholders
• Expand slavery into new territory
• 2 Senators per state!
• US Government
• Increases power
• If we have it, they dont
• Many govt officials are land speculators or
  slaveholders
• Settlers
• Get their own land

• Who loses?

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DBQ

• O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves
  of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above
  the fruited plain! America! America! God shed
  his grace on thee And crown thy good with
  brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

• How does this song promote the idea of Manifest
  Destiny?
• From where does America get the authority to
  spread across the continent?
• How could this song affect childrens image of
  the US?