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Manifest destiny

Manifest destiny . By jamequia Benton. Manifest destiny . Expasion westward perfectly natural to many americans in the mid- nineteenth . Oregon country. Huge area of land that layed between pacific ocean and the rocky mountain north of California Washington ,Oregon & Idaho

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Manifest destiny

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  1. Manifest destiny By jamequia Benton

  2. Manifest destiny • Expasion westward perfectly natural to many americans in the mid- nineteenth

  3. Oregon country • Huge area of land that layed between pacific ocean and the rocky mountain north of California Washington ,Oregon & Idaho • Treaty with great britian 2000 mile journey started in independence crossed the great plains Platte river , Columbia river, snake river • Line lattitude that democrat believed should be nations border

  4. Texas • Texans won their independence from Mexico and asked to be admitted to the united states • in October 2, 1835 with the battle of Gonzales • 1803 when the Louisiana territory from France • Took his father land grant recruited 300 americans families to settle the land along the Brazos river they called it the old three hundreds • The decree stopped all immigration from the united states ; also encouraged the immigration of Mexican and European families with generous land grant s angered Texans. • General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna • Spanish Mission in San Antonio in 1836 , the mission held a Small force of 180 Texans led by Williams B. Trans Santa Anna Defeated all of the Texans . • March 2,1836 • Washington – on –the-Brazos • Sam Houston

  5. Battle of san Jacinto • April 21 • Remember the Alamo ! Remember the Goliad • Santa Anna signed a treaty that recognized the independence of Texas • Because the addition of another slave state would upset the balance of slave and free states and congress • December 29, 1845 • James k. Polk

  6. The war with Mexico • New Mexico , Arizona ,Nevada, and Utah and parts of Colorado and Wyoming • It’s a trade route to the west that went to Missouri to new Mexico. • Americans begin settling the region • Spanish explored and missionaries from Mexico had the first had the first Europeans to settle in California. • Mild climate, scenic beauty and abundance natural resources • That way the nation would be safety bordered by sea instead of a foreign power . • Rio Grande • Nueces river American troops would drive Mexicans forces out of the dispute bordered region then Texas made the border secure

  7. Utah and California • The gold was in California (1849) • The people that came to the mine were called the forty nines • They had to go over sierra Nevada mountain range • Mexico, south America ,Europe ,Australia, and china

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