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“Manifest Destiny” The ideology of growth & expansion

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“Manifest Destiny”

The ideology of growth & expansion

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“Manifest Destiny”

Progress – what did this mean?

Views on race

Nationalism

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“Manifest Destiny”

Religion - Protestant

Government - Democracy

Economy - capitalist

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“Manifest Destiny”

“noblesse oblige”

(“nobility obliges”)

With wealth and power come responsibilities

“To whom much is given, much is expected”

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“Manifest Destiny”

John L. O’Sullivan

“…And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny

to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent

which Providence has given us for the development of

the great experiment of liberty and federated self-

government entrusted to us.”

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Territorial Expansion – 1810s Spanish Florida

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1819 - Adams-Onís Treaty (“Transcontinental Treaty”)

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1842 – Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Maine

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1842 – Webster-Ashburton Treaty

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Oregon Country

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Oregon Trail

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Oregon Country

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Columbia River

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1846 - Oregon Treaty

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Texas (Coahuila y Tejas)

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Texas Colonization -1820s

Stephen F. Austin Moses Austin

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Conflict with Mexican Government

slavery

immigration

tariffs

“Home rule”

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General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

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Texas War of Independence

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Alamo

James Bowie William B. Travis

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Republic of Texas

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Battle of the Alamo

ended Mar 6, 1836

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Battle at Goliad

Mar 20, 1836

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Battle at San Jacinto

April 21, 1836

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Republic of Texas

Sam Houston

March 2, 1836

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Annexation of Texas

John Tyler

Annexation treaty

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Election of 1844

Texas Annexation

James K. Polk

Henry Clay Democrat

Whig

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Mexican War,

1846 - 1848

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Mexico City

Sept 1847

Cerro Gordo

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Feb 1848

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“Mexican Cession” Territories

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Territorial expansion

Antebellum Era