1. Manifest Destiny
Unit 8

2. Manifest Destiny
Conflict
Expansion
Migration
Territory
Annexation

3. Territorial Expansion
LA Purchase 1803
Texas Annexation 1845
Oregon Territory 1846
Mexican Cession 1848
Gadsden Purchase 1853

4. Manifest Destiny Land acquired by the US “Sea to shining sea”
Many settlers moved west to start a new life

5. Keeping things organized
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Provided procedures for establishing territories and creating states

6. War with Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (say it right) says…
Mexico recognizes Texas as part of the United States
Rio Grande is made the southern border of Texas
Mexican Cession (Mexico cedes parts of 7 states to US)

7. War with Mexico 1846-1848 President Polk
General Zachary Taylor (Rio Grande, disputed territory)
General Winfield Scott (Veracruz, Mexico City)
Santa Anna

8. War with Mexico States Added as a result (Mexican Cession)
California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona
Parts of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico

9. Territorial Acquisition

11. Gadsden Purchase 1853 Strip of land in southern Arizona and New Mexico
Acquired from Mexico for $10 million
Wanted by the US to build a southern trans-continental railroad.

12. Physical Barriers to settlers

13. Trails West Oregon Trail (Settlers headed to Oregon Territory)
Mormon Trail (Mormons headed to Utah)
Santa Fe Trail (Opened new trade routes in the south)
All crossed Rocky Mountains

14. Trails West

15. American Progress by John Gast

16. John Gast
Describe the elements within the painting that demonstrate Manifest Destiny.

17. Asian Immigration

18. Asian Immigration Looking for opportunities Jobs Land Gold
Mainly in California and West Coast

19. “Extending nearly ten degrees of latitude along the Pacific, and embracing the only safe and commodious harbors on that coast for many hundred miles, with a temperate climate and an extensive interior of fertile lands, it is scarcely possible to estimate its wealth until it shall be brought under the government of our laws and its resources fully developed. From its position it must command the rich commerce of China, of Asia, of the island of the Pacific, of Western Mexico, of Central America, the South American States, and of the Russian possessions bordering on that ocean. A great emporium will doubtless speedily arise on the Californian coast which may be destined to rival in importance New Orleans itself.” -President James K. Polk

20. Away, Away with all theses cobweb issues of rights of discovery, exploration, settlement, continuity, etc….our claim to Oregon would still be best and strongest. And that claim is by the right if our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us. -John O’sullivan 1845