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Manifest DestinyAmericans move west, energized by their belief that the destiny of the United States was to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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I. The Frontier Draws SettlersA. American Mission• Americans move to La. Territory• Manifest destiny —belief that U.S. destined to

expand to Pacific Ocean

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B. Attitudes Toward the Frontier• Many settlers try fresh start in West after

panic of 1837• Offered land for farming• speculators buy land in hopes to resell for profit• Merchants follow farmers, miners• Oregon Territory harbors expand trade with Asia;

serve Pacific fleet

II. Settlers and Native Americans

A. Effects on Native American Communities• Most N. Ams maintain culture, fight to keep whites

out• Some assimilate into white culture• Assimilation- a minority group’s adoption of the

beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture

B. Middle Ground• Area not dominated by N. Ams or settlers• west of Mississippi, result of Indian Removal Act

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Continued . . .

A. The Santa Fe Trail/ Oregon Trail• Thousands trek west on old Native American trails,

new routes

III. Trails West

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B. The Mormon Migration• Joseph Smith forms Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints in NY• Mormons —religious group, settles in Illinois;

clashes over polygamy• Brigham Young, Smith’s successor, leads

Mormons outside U.S.- settle near Great Salt Lake, Utah

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C. Resolving Territorial Disputes• 1842, Webster-Ashburton Treaty settles border in

East, Midwest between US and G.B. • “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” slogan calls for

annexation of Oregon• 1846, U.S., Britain extend boundary west along 49th

parallel