Manifest Destiny

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Manifest Destiny

• Expanding West

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Louisiana Purchase

• 1803
• President Jefferson purchases from Napoleon of
  France
• 15 million about 3 cents/acre
• Became 14 states
• Mississippi River to Rocky Mountains

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Why is it significant?

• Doubled the size of the U.S.
• Cheap land

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Florida

• 1819 After Seminole Wars
• Adams-Onis Treaty with Spain for 5 million and
  US gives up claims to Texas after Louisiana
  Purchase

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Why did we want it?

• To expand south
• To stop slaves from escaping

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Oregon Treaty

• President Polk negotiates treaty with the
  British
• Set border of Canada and US at 49th Parallel

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Why was it important?

• Created the modern border with Canada

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Texas

• Moses Austin makes a deal with the Spanish to
  settle land by starting a colony
• Dies son Stephen Austin begins colony 1823
• Mexico becomes independent Spain in 1821 so now
  there is a problem with deal

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Texas Revolution

• Under agreement
• Must become Roman Catholic
• 2. Must swear allegiance to Mexico give up US
  citizenship
• 3. Be on land 7 years
• 4. Must speak Spanish

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Texas Revolution

• Mexico new president Santa Anna
• March 2, 1836- Texas declares independence

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Major Battles

• Alamo mission converted to military area
• Mexicans storm fort kill almost all of the 200
  Americans
• Davey Crockett
• Battle San Jacinto Capture Santa Anna
• Texas Free!

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Annexation of Texas

• Sam Houston president of Texas
• Remain independent 9 years
• Annexed in Dec. 1845 and becomes a State

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Mexican American War

• Polk tries to negotiate buying New Mexico
  making border at the Rio Grande
• Mexico refuses war declared May 1846
• Bear Flag Revolt seize part of California

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Mexican American War

• By Sept. 1846 General Zachary Taylor makes it to
  Mexico City
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
• Mexican Cession New Mexico, Utah, Arizona,
  Colorado, Wyoming, California, Nevada
• US pays 15 million
• Gadsden Purchase 1853 changed border

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Gold Rush

• 1849 People move west to California in search of
  gold
• Importance moves population out west

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Alaska

• Russia owns it and needs money after Crimean War
• William Seward (Sec. of State under A. Johnson)
  purchases it for 7.2 million in 1867
• Sewards Folly/Icebox
• People thought it was a wasteland and expensive
• Important has gold and oil
• Alaska becomes a state in 1959

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Midway Islands

• In Pacific
• Important have bases in Pacific for WWII