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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.