 Is the idea that the united states was meant to extend its border from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean.  Made by John L. O’sullivan in 1845.

 It was a area of land between the pacific ocean and the Rocky Mountains, North of California.  Oregon :Washington  The journey was 2,000 miles long, and started in the Mississippi Valley.  It went over Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.  It crossed the North and South Plate river. The Columbia, and the Snake river.

 Texas won their independence from Mexico, and asked to be in the United States.  In  He continued his fathers dream, and got permission for the land grants, and brought 300 families to Texas.  They formed a Decree, or official order to keep all immigration from the United States. The Americans were uneasy about this.  General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna became president.

 The Alamo was a Texas mission, and the Mexican army came to it to fight the Texans.  On March 2, 1836 at Washington on The Brazos.  Sam Houston.  April 21. Remember the Alamo. Santa Anna signed a treaty recognizing Texas's Independence.  Because the argument of slavery.  December,  James k. Polk.

 New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and part of Colorado.  Becknell's route to sell good from the Mississippi to the West.  Missouri river Arkansas river Rocky Mountains, New Mexico.  Americans began settling in the region.  The Santa fe Trail.  Mild, Scenic beauty, and abundance of natural resources.

 They would be safe by the seas, not foreign powers, and help trade.  Rio Grande.  Nueces river.  Agreed upon war, Americans killed on our soil, attack was grounds of war.  Disgraceful and cruel, The expansion would bring more slavery  Bear flag.  General Winfield Scoot.

 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February  Rio Grande.  California and New Mexico.  Gadsden purchase, strip of land along the southern edge of Arizona and New Mexico.

 In 1849, California, 49ers.  Sierra Nevada.  Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, China.  Town Built almost over night!  It grew from a tiny village to a huge city of over 20,000.  A Jewish immigrant, sold sturdy denim jeans to miners.

 Mormons.  Joseph Smith.  He had visions telling him to make a new Christian church, he ended up dead.  Brigham Young.  Great Salt Lake.  1896.