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Forming A New Nation

Forming A New Nation. Click to play: Mexico opens Texas to Americans who come to claim it as their own. Was “Manifest Destiny” just? Was it right?. Manifest Destiny. Our culture was superior It’s our destiny…it’s our right…it’s ours for the taking!!!. Oregon gained

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Forming A New Nation

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  1. Forming A New Nation Click to play: Mexico opens Texas to Americans who come to claim it as their own.

  2. Was “Manifest Destiny” just? Was it right?

  3. Manifest Destiny • Our culture was superior • It’s our destiny…it’s our right…it’s ours for the taking!!! • Oregon gained • 1846-President Polk compromises with Britain • Boundary with Britain, we gunna share it! • Oregon Territory included present day states: • Oregon,Washington,Idaho 11th - James K.Polk (1845–1849).

  4. Tensions with Mexico • Mexico doesn’t agree with the U.S. getting Texas • Ticked Off • The U.S. offers to buy California and New Mexico for $30 million • Mexico refuses • Now the U.S. is ticked off!

  5. Trouble is looming… • Texas claimed its southern border is the Rio Grande • Mexico argued that it was the Nueces River • Nueces River is about 200 miles north of the Rio Grande • Uh oh?

  6. The Event That Sparked the War March 1846- • President Polk orders soldiers to cross the Nueces River and set up posts along the Rio Grande. • Polk knew that Mexico claimed this and hoped it would spark a war. • Mexican troops fight the US briefly.

  7. War is Declared! • President Polk signs a declaration of war against Mexico. • He hopes to not only secure the border of Texas, but also to gain from Mexico the territories of California and New Mexico. • Polk claims Mexico “had shed American blood upon the American soil” – when in fact it wasn’t American soil !!! • Video: The United States declares war on Mexico 1:18 • Northerners protest • Saw this as plot to add more slave states • West and South • Wanted more land and were happy • Many volunteers join the army • Lots from the West and South

  8. U.S. vs Mexican Army

  9. Ok…ok… • So after all the fighting…trust me, I could go on and on with all the battles and stuff, but… • The end result is…next slide…

  10. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • Mexico gives California and New Mexico to the U.S. • About ½ of Mexican territory is now the U.S.’s • U.S. pays Mexico $15 million and also respected the rights of Spanish speaking peoples in the new land. • The treaty increased the size of the United States by about one-third--an addition greater than the Louisiana Purchase. • Few Americans even know the name of the President that brought the most land under the American Flag...President James K. Polk.

  11. Final Addition…The Gadsden Purchase • 1853- The U.S. pays $10 million for a strip of land in present day Arizona and New Mexico • To provide a good railroad route to California. • Manifest Destiny is a reality!

  12. Western Expansion Map, 1853

  13. The American Indians: Protecting sacred land • Video: The American Indians: Protecting sacred land, 1:38The American Indians of the Southwest look neither forward nor backward to find meaning, but rather to their land. With a tradition of playing colonial powers off against each other, the Indians initially side with the Americans against the Mexicans during the war, but they ultimately face disastrous results.

  14. The Treatment • Americans just did not respect the Mexicans or Indians. • That’s the simple truth!

  15. Looking back: A just war? • Was “Manifest Destiny” just? Was it right? • Video: While the U.S. gained much from its defeat of Mexico, some see the war as leading inevitably to the American Civil War, while others like Ulysses S. Grant, who fought in the U.S.-Mexican War, regard it as “one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.” 2:14

  16. The Aztlan Movement Today PLAY

  17. By 2028, this is supposed to happen? • Do you think it will? • What states would be the first to go?

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