1. Tuesday 4/12/2016 Sectionalism and War #7 (Roughly Chapter )
APUSH REVIEW SESSION #7
Tuesday 4/12/2016
Sectionalism and War #7
(Roughly Chapter )

2. Manifest Destiny
Why did the United States feel they had a right to expand westward?

3. The Fur Trade
The fur trade was the greatest spur to exploration in North America.
Not until the 1820s could American companies challenge the British.
Trappers known as Mountain Men:
accommodated themselves to local Indians,
rarely came in contact with whites and,
might be viewed as the advance guard of the market revolution.
Would meet up at the Rendezvous annually
By the 1840s, however, the beaver was virtually trapped out.
Refer to “Bourgeois Walker and His Wife.”
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Part Four:
The Texas Revolution
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5. Americans in Texas War broke out in 1835.
Due to extreme changes in Politics, harder on American Immigrants; War Erupted
The Mexican army overwhelmed Americans at the Alamo in San Antonio.
The Alamo was a Spanish Mission ca. 1744
Alamo- Feb. 23 to March
6,000 Mexicans vs. 187 Texans
183 were killed including Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and Col. William Travis
Only 4 survived (Including Both Women)

6. The Mexican-American War
Part Five:
The Mexican-American War
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7. Origins of the War
James K. Polk was committed to expanding U.S. territory.
He peacefully settled the Oregon controversy.
Increasing tensions with Mexico led that nation to break diplomatic relations with the United States.
Polk wanted to extend U.S. territory to the Pacific and encouraged a takeover of California.
A border dispute led Polk to order troops to defend Mexico.
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8. Mr. Polk’s War
The dispute with Mexico erupted into war after that nation refused to receive Polk’s envoy and a brief skirmish occurred on the Texas-Mexico border.
Polk asked for war with Mexico.
The call was politically divisive, particularly among opponents of slavery and northerners.
Mass and individual protests occurred.
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9. Mr. Polk’s War
Polk planned the war strategy, sending troops into the northern provinces of Mexico, conquering New Mexico and California. Victories in Mexico came hard.
When General Scott captured Mexico City, the war ended.
Polk had ambitions of taking over Mexico, but strong opposition made him accept the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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10. MAP 14. 6 Territory Added, 1845–53 James K
MAP 14.6 Territory Added, 1845–53 James K. Polk was elected president in 1844 on an expansionist platform. He lived up to most of his campaign rhetoric by gaining the Oregon Country (to the 49th parallel) peacefully from the British, Texas by the presidential action of his predecessor John Tyler, and present-day California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and part of Colorado by war with Mexico. In the short space of three years, the size of the United States grew by 70 percent. In 1853, the Gadsden Purchase added another 30,000 square miles.
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11. California and the Gold Rush
Part Six:
California and the Gold Rush
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12. Gold! Map: California in the Gold Rush
The discovery of gold in January 1848 triggered a massive gold rush of white Americans, Mexicans, and Chinese.
Because it was the entry port and supply point, San Francisco grew from a village of 1,000 in 1848 to a city of 35,000 in 1850.
California’s white population grew by nearly tenfold.
California gained enough residents to become a state in 1850.
Chart: Where the Forty-Niners Came From
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13. The Politics of Manifest Destiny
Part Seven:
The Politics of Manifest Destiny
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14. The Wilmot Proviso
Northern Whigs opposed expansion on antislavery grounds.
The Wilmot Proviso caused a controversy over the status of slavery in the new territories.
A bitter debate on the Proviso raised serious sectional issues and caused the first breakdown of the national party system.
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15. The Free-Soil Movement
The growth of the Liberty Party indicated northern public opinion was shifting toward an antislavery position.
The Free-Soil Party offered a compromise for northern voters by focusing on stopping the spread of slavery.
The Free-Soilers appealed to northern values of freedom and individualism, as well as racism, for they would ban all African Americans from the new territories.
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