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Manifest Destiny.

Manifest Destiny. By Sterlynn James. Mrs. Hilton 6 th period. Manifest Destiny. It means to move the country from sea to sea. Made by John L. O’sullivan in 1815. Oregon Country. It was a area of land between the pacific ocean and the Rocky Mountains. Treat with George Washington.

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Manifest Destiny.

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  1. Manifest Destiny. By Sterlynn James. Mrs. Hilton 6th period.

  2. Manifest Destiny. • It means to move the country from sea to sea. • Made by John L. O’sullivan in 1815.

  3. Oregon Country. • It was a area of land between the pacific ocean and the Rocky Mountains. • Treat with George Washington. • The journey was 200 miles long, and started in the Mississippi Valley. • It went over Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. • It crossed the North and South Plate river. The Columbia, and the Snake river.

  4. Texas. • Texas won their independence from Mexico, and asked to be in the United States. • In 1835. • He continued his fathers dream, and got permission for the land grants. • They formed a Decree , or official order to keep all immigration from the United States. The Americans were uneasy about this. • General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna became president.

  5. Texas. • The Alamo was a Texas mission, and the Mexican army came to it to fight the Texans. • On March 2, 1836 at Washington on The Brazos. • Sam Houston. • April 21. Remember the Alamo. Santa Anna signed a treaty recognizing Texas's Independence. • Because the argument of slavery. • December, 29 1845. • John k. Polk.

  6. War With Mexico. • New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and part of Colorado. • Becknell's route to sell goods. • Missouri river Arkansas river Rocky Mountains, New Mexico. • Americans began settling in the region. • The Santa fe Trail. • Mild, Scenic beauty, and abundance of natural resources.

  7. War with Mexico. • They would be safe by the seas, not foreign powers, and help trade. • Rio Grande. • Nueces river. • Agreed upon war, Americans killed on our soil, attack was grounds of war. • Disgraceful and cruel, The expansion would bring more slavery • Bear flag. • General Winfield Scoot.

  8. War with Mexico. • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 1848. • Rio Grande. • California and New Mexico. • Gadsden purchase, strip of land along the southern edge of Arizona and New Mexico.

  9. New Settlers In California and Utah. • In 1849, California, 49ers. • Sierra Nevada. • Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, China. • Town Built almost over night! • It grew from a tiny village to a huge city of over 20,000. • A Jewish immigrant, sold sturdy denim jeans to miners.

  10. Religious refuge in Utah. • Mormons. • Joseph Smith. • He had visions telling him to make a new Christian church, he ended up dead. • Brigham Young. • Great Salt Lake. • 1896.

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