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Oregon Country:Where it is: Between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains North of California. States in the area:
Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, and parts of
Montana and
Wyoming.Treaty we got it from: Adams-Onis Treaty.
Oregon Country cont…:The Oregon Trail: The Oregon Trail was a 2,000 mile journey that started in the Mississippi, went over the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, and through the Platte, Snake, an Columbia Rivers.
Oregon
Country cont...
“Fifty-four Forty or Fight!”
The British and the Americans had a joint occupation on the Oregon Country until 1844, when the Oregon settlers believed that the Americans should have sole ownership of the area. At the election of 1844, the democratic party supported that Oregon be part of America. They used the slogan, “Fifty-four Forty or Fight,” to show the wanted degree of border for the nation. Great Britain refused, but came to a compromise to place the border at 49° N in June 1846.
Texas:Main Idea:
Texans won their independence from Mexico and asked to be admitted to the United States.
Conflict in Texas
started in 1830
Stephen F. Austin recruited 300 American families to settle the fertile land along the Brazos and Colorado Rivers.
In 1830, the
Mexican
government issued
a decree that
stopped all
immigration from
America, and it
angered the
American Texans.
Texas cont...:
General Antonio de
Santa Anna became
the President of
Mexico in 1833.
The Alamo:The Alamo was a small mission in the town of San Antonio. Santa Anna found a small Texan force inside the mission and, for 12 days, kept pressing on the Texans until the Mexican force finally overcame the Alamo’s defenders.
Texas declared its independence on March 2, 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos(4 days before the siege of the Alamo).After Texas declared
its independence,
Sam Houston
became the
commander and
chief of the Texas
forces.
Texas cont...:
Battle of San Jacinto:
The Battle of San Jacinto took place on April 21 at present-day Houston. Sam Houston and his small army initiated a surprise attack on Santa Anna’s army. All the while the Texans shouted, “Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!” The Texans had won and at the end of the battle they had captured 700 soldiers, including Santa Anna. On May 14, 1836, Santa Anna signed a treaty that recognized the independence of Texas. Although Texas was independent, The U.S. President, Andrew Jackson, refused to annex Texas because the addition of another slave state would upset the balance of slave and free states in the Union.
War With MexicoStates included:New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.
The Santa Fe Trail:The Santa Fe Trail was the route that the first American trader, William Becknell, took in order to get to Santa Fe. It covered the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers.
Trade increase with New
Mexico affected the U.S.
by more settling of the
region.
The Spanish explorers and missionaries from Mexico influenced the culture of California.
War With Mexico cont...:John C. Fre`mont
described the
climate of
California by
saying there were,
“large farms and
grazing
establishments.”
Some Americans said that if the U.S. was extended to the Pacific it would be safely bordered by the sea rather than a foreign country.
The U.S. insisted that the border of Texas was at The Rio Grande River, but Mexico said it was the Nueces River.
Polk called an
emergency
meeting with the
cabinet because a
Mexican force had
attacked the
Americans at the
Texas border. They
all agreed that this
was grounds for
war with Mexico.
War With
Mexico cont…:
Fredrick Douglas, a free African American, felt that the war against Mexico was “disgraceful” and “cruel.”
When California won it’s independence it was named the Independent Republic of California. The country’s flag had a bear and a star on a white background.
President Polk sent
General Winfield Scott
to capture Mexico
City(the capital).
War With Mexico
cont…: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (signed in February 1848) ended the war with Mexico. The border of Texas
ended up at the Rio
Grande River.
The states we acquired from Mexico included: California and New Mexico.
In 1853, The
Gadsden Purchase
gave us the states
of Arizona and New
Mexico.
Gold Rush:
The Gold Rush happened in 1849 in California. The people that came to dig for gold were called the forty-niners. The mountain range all of them had to cross was called the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.
Countries who sent the “forty-niners” included: Mexico, Europe, South America, Australia, and China.
A Boomtown is a
community experiencing
a sudden growth in
business or population.
San Francisco grew from a
tiny city to a population of
over 20,000.
Levi Strausse:Levi Strausse was a jewish immigrant that sold sturdy pants, called Levi’s, made from denim to the miners who came to California.
Gold Rush cont...:
Religious Refuge in Utah:
In 1830, Joseph Smith founded the Mormon church in New York. The neighbors of the church didn’t agree with them so they moved to Ohio, then Missouri, and then to Illinois. In 1844, a mob killed Joseph Smith and Brigham Young took his place. Young decided it was time for the church to move again. This time, they settled near present-day Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah did not become a state until 1896.