Manifest Destiny

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Manifest Destiny

• The Texas Revolution and the War with Mexico

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The Market Revolution

• Industrialization Workers now spend on goods
  produced by other workers
• Specialization in agriculture raising one or
  two cash crops to sell US or abroad
• Market Revolution people in the US now buy
  sell goods rather than making them for their own
  use

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Entrepreneurship

• Capitalism private business and individuals
  control the means of production
• Entrepreneurs Investors in business
• Free enterprise the right to own property,
  undertake business activities, and make a profit
  from them.
• What role did entrepreneurs play in fueling the
  nations economy?

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Impact of the Market Revolution

1. Identify early 19th century inventions use
   pages 276-279
2. How did these new inventions help the economy?
3. What factors helped the Northeast become the
   center of commerce in the US?
4. How did new inventions of this time impact the
   lives of ordinary Americans?

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Free Write

• You have just come into a sum of money and have
  decided to invest it in one of the new inventions
  that you have been hearing about. Choose an
  invention and explain the following
• Why did you choose this invention for your
  investment?
• How do you think this invention will impact
• People
• The markets
• The overall wealth of the nation

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Identify 10 details in the painting.
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Settlers Move West
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Who Are they?

• Oregon Trail Methodists missionaries
• Mormon Trail Brigham Young and Salt Lake City,
  Utah
• Santa Fe Trail Trade between the US and Mexico

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Why Did they go West?

1. Escape Religious Persecution
2. Find new markets for trade
3. Land for farming and ranching
4. Locate Harbors on the Pacific
5. Seek employment
6. Avoid creditors
7. Spread Democracy

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Native Americans

1. Why did a number of Native Americans resist white
   settlement on the western frontier?
2. What were the causes and consequences of the
   Blackhawk War?
3. What did the Treaty of Ft. Laramie state?
4. How would you characterize government response to
   Native Americans in the west at this time?

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Why Land?
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The Texas Revolution

• What do these flags indicate are some of the
  concerns or issues of people living in Texas?

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Mexico Encourages Settlement

• NA attacks missionaries, settlements, forced
  labor
• Protect northern territories
• Austin empressario land speculator
• Economy longhorns, land, settlement

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Mexico Independent Now Governs
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Requirements

• Obey Mexican Laws, observe Catholicism
• Did not Protestant, brought slaves
• Austin distance seeks self government

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Texas Revolution
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The Texas Revolution

• Santa Anna Mexican Pres.
• Austin empressario, imprisoned
• Seals border Tax American goods
• The Alamo
• Sam Houston leads forces
• San Jacinto Mexican Defeat
• Sam Houston and the Lone Star State

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What was the Mexican View of the Alamo?

• With a partner, look at the following diary
  excerpts and answer the questions provided.
• You have 30 minutes to complete
• The Library Chronicle Memoirs of a Veteran of
  the Two Battles of the Alamo A Mexican View of
  the War in Texas

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The Debate
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The Lone Star State

• 1836 Independent Republic
• Debate over annexation could create war with
  Mexico? OR extension of slavery could create
  conflict
• Rio Grande disputed border, Santa Anna denies
  treaty
• 1844 Polk - annexes

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To Annex or Not to Annex

• Adding Texas to the Union will expand the amount
  of land open to slavery
• If we annex Texas, we will provoke a war with
  Mexico
• Does annexation follow ideals expressed in the
  Monroe Doctrine of respecting newly established
  nations in the W. Hemisphere?

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The War With Mexico

• Opposition to the Mexican-American War
• Read through the documents assigned to your
  group. Report to the class your findings. We
  will discuss the opinions on whether or not war
  with Mexico was a good idea for the US at this
  time.

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WAR With Mexico
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Polk the Aggressor?

• Polk Dem supporter of expansionism
• Sends military to Rio Grande explore
• Offers to purchase CA
• Santa Fe merchants falls, and CA with aid of
  military
• War expands into Mexico, Santa Anna out turns
  on Americans

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The War
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What does the cartoon indicate about the
candidate for president? What does this tell
you about how some Americans viewed the
War with Mexico?
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Results

• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo - Mexican
  Cession 15mil 1848
• Gadsden Purchase 10 mil
• NOTE 1848 Sutters Mill and the California
  Gold rush
• What did the US gain, besides land, as a result
  of the war with Mexico?
• How did the War with Mexico affect the US
  economically, socially, and politically?

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US TERRITORIAL ACQUISITIONS
Date Territory Country Acquired From How Acquired
1776 Original 13 Colonies Great Britain Declaration of Independence
1783 Treaty of Paris Great Britain Treaty ending American Revolution
1803 Louisiana Purchase France Purchased from France for 15 million
1819 Florida Cession Spain Adams-Onis Treaty
1810 1813 Western Florida Spain Annexation -
1845 Texas Texas Republic Annexation
1846 Oregon Territory Great Britain Treaties -- 1842, 1846
1848 Mexican Cession Mexico Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending Mexican War
1853 Gadsden Purchase Mexico Purchased to use for proposedsouthern transcontinental railroad
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Political Cartoon

• Look for details
• in the cartoon
• Analyze what
• might these details
• mean?
• What is the issue
• Or message the
• cartoon is trying to
• portray?
• What time period
• do you think the
• cartoonist is
• Addressing?

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Questions to Consider

1. Did the US steal Texas, Mexican Lands?
2. What impact did Manifest Destiny and the Monroe
   Doctrine have on these events?
3. How does the annexation of these lands impact the
   debate on slavery?
4. How did these events influence public opinion or
   policy?
5. How did the Texas Revolution and the War with
   Mexico affect our relationship with Mexico and
   other foreign nations?

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Final Product

• H -Write an essay on how you might rewrite your
  textbook. Be sure to include some of the
  insights into Manifest Destiny and the Mexican
  War that you have discovered by looking at the
  documents. Discuss the role of individuals in
  taking responsibility for government policy they
  may disagree with.
• CP Make a T-chart of the pros and cons of
  westward expansion. Analyze the information and
  argue whether or not westward expansion is a
  defining point of American greatness in our
  nations history.