Today’s Goal 2-November-10

• How did Manifest Destiny lead to War with Mexico?

• Did Manifest Destiny unite or divide the United States?

MANIFEST DESTINY

• What was manifest destiny?

• Do you think it would be a uniting or dividing factor for the United States?

• Follow along on the Cause & Effect timeline while you take your notes today…

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1) Anti-Slavery Expansion Plan2) Rio Grande Border3) Territorial Acquisition4) New Mexico/California5) Annexation of Texas6) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo7) Gadsden Purchase8) Wilmot Proviso9) Mexican War10) Transcontinental Railroad Route11) Southern Arizona/New Mexico12) Going to be a Slave State13) Purchase money for Free Soil

Quick Identificationa) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j) k) l) m)

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Mexico

• Newly independent country – 1821– Economic struggles

• A radical solution– COTTON and Americans!– How did Americans grow cotton?

• Mexico and slavery…• Texan Uprising– The Lone Star Republic – 1836– How is this uprising consistent with SOUTHERN

politics?

Tippecanoe and Tyler too…• Election of 1840

– Whig Party– William Henry Harrison’s

Inaugural– THE Texas question– Tyler too…

• John Tyler– Whig???– Signed annexation agreement

with Texas - 1844• If Manifest Destiny existed

why not Texas?

James K. Polk

• Dark Horse candidate in 1844.

• 54°40’ or Fight• Polk embodies Manifest

Destiny…it is HIS only issue.

• Guess who he beats?– Clay, again!

Congress Annexed Texas 1845But what WAS Texas?

How did Manifest Destiny lead to War with Mexico? Did Manifest Destiny unite or divide

the United States?

• United behind a cause = Manifest Destiny• Fought a war to expand Territory – Mexico did not

bend to AMERICAN Manifest Destiny– The US WON that war!

• Acquired vast amounts of new territory– The US opened Pandora’s box – New Territory Same OLD

questions!• A generation of young military school graduates got

REAL battle training. (Lee, Grant, Johnston, Bragg, Longstreet, McClellan, Jackson)