Manifest Destiny

Land fever leads to pronounced changes to the United States.

Westward Expansion

Manifest Destiny-1845, John L. Sullivan. Causes?

National Pride Economic Gain Expansion of Rail Expansion of slavery

“The sun of civilization must shine across the sea: socially and commercially” T.H. Benton

Oregon Country

Lure? “quotes” Competing claims Women and hardship? “mountain men”

Maps

The Oregon Trail

Oregon Trail: OE!

Native Americans

Plains Native Americans—unique and different to the Eastern Woodlands

Horse Buffalo Native American Wars and competing land

claims. “Fort policy” “concentration policy” Fort Laramie Conference: creation of a

“corridor”

Fort Laramie

Chief Red Cloud and General William Tecumseh Sherman sign the Fort Laramie Treaty, which brings an end to war along the Bozeman Trail. Under terms of the treaty, the United States agrees to abandon its forts along the Bozeman Trail and grant enormous parts of the Wyoming, Montana and Dakota Territories, including the Black Hills area, to the Lakota people as their exclusive territory.

Mormon Exodus

Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon Appeal of Mormonism in the Antebellum “amidst social turmoil and rampant materialism” Drove from New York to Ohio to Missouri to Nauvoo

Illinios…then to Salt Lake City. “Garden in the Desert” Brigham Young and the Mormon Wars