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Title: Manifest Destiny


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Manifest Destiny
  • Section 9-2
  • pp. 280-285

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Preview Questions
  • Why did settlers continue moving westward?
  • How did westward expansion affect Native
    Americans?
  • What routes did the settlers take?

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I. Frontier Draws Settlers
  • Manifest Destiny
  • US would expand westward
  • Why Move West?
  • Escape financial problems
  • Land availability
  • Trade with Asia

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II. Settlers Native Americans
  • The Black Hawk War
  • Black Hawk leads a rebellion
  • Defeated by IL militia
  • Sauk and Fox tribes forced
  • to move west

Black Hawk
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II. Settlers Native Americans
  • Middle Ground
  • Land neither group controlled
  • As long as whites depend on NAs, relations are
    good
  • Ft. Laramie Treaty
  • Govt gives NAs land in Central Plains
  • NAs agree not to attack whites and to allow
    improvements on land
  • Govt does not honor terms

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III. Trails West
  • Santa Fe Trail MO to NM
  • Traders seeking wealth
  • Find silver, gold, furs
  • Oregon Trail MO to OR
  • Methodist ministers, farmers, settlers
  • Seek fertile land or Christian converts

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III. Trails West
  • Mormon Migration
  • Joseph Smith killed by anti-Mormon mob
  • Brigham Young leads West
  • Settle Salt Lake City, Utah

Mormon Founder Joseph Smith
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III. Trails West
  • 54o 40 or Fight
  • US comes close to war with Britain over OR
  • British lose interest and US gains OR

President James K. Polk
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