1. By : Joyciana Ray

2.  Manifest Destiny is the idea that the United States was meant to extend its borders from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.  John L. O’Sullivan, 1845

3.  Huge area that lay between the Pacific Ocean and Rocky Mountains north of California.  Washington, Oregon,and Idaho.  Treaty of Great Britain.  2,000 miles journey started in Independence, MO.  Crossed the Great Plains.  Cambia, Platte, Snake Rivers.  Latitude that Democrat believed should be nations.

4.  Texas won their Independence from Mexico and asked to be admitted to the United States.  1803 when the Louisiana Territory From France.  Took his father’s land grant recruited 300 American families to settle the land along the Brazos's River – they called Old Three Hundreds.  The decree stopped all immigration from the United States ; also encouraged the immigration of Mexican and European families with generous land grants angered Texans.  General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna  Spanish mission in San Antonio in 1836, the mission held a small force of 180 Texans led by Williams B. Trans Santa Anna defeated all of the Texans.  March 2,1836  Washington – on – the – Brazos  Sam Houston

5.  April 21  “Remember the Alamo ! Remember Goliad!”  Santa Anna signed a treaty that recognized the independence of Texas.  Because the addition of another slave state would upset the balance of slave and free states in congress.  December 29, 1845  James k. Polk

6.  New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, And Utah and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.  It’s a trade route to the west that went from Missouri to New Mexico.  Americans began settling the region.  Spanish explores and missionaries from Mexico had the first Europeans to settle in California.  Mild climate,Scenic beauty, and abundance of natural resources  That way the nation would be safely bordered by sea in stead of a foreign power.  Rio Grande  Nueces River  Americans troop would drive Mexicans forces out of the disputed border region out of Texas and then the border secure.

7.  California 1849  Forty Niners  Sierra Nevada (They hade to go over this Mountain Range)  Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, and China Sent 49ers.  San Francisco grew from a tiny village to a city of about 20,000 people.  Boomtown-A community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population.  Levi Strauss – A Jewish immigrants.