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Manifest Destiny

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Assignment #10

 Primary Texas Declaration of Independence 1836

Primary An American View of Mexican California 1840

Primary Manifest Destiny 1845

Primary Thoreau on Civil Disobedience 1846

Primary More like a pig than a bear... 1846

Primary Chief Seattle on Indians vs. Americans 1854

 

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I.  Territorial Expansion (Manifest Destiny)

·        Texas

-         The Texas Revolt (1835-1836 and the Republic of Texas (1836-1845)

-         Texas Annexation (1845)

·        Oregon (1846)

·        New Mexico and California

-         James K. Polk (U.S. president, 1845-1849)

-         The Mexican-American War (1846-1847)

-         Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)

 

II.  Demographic Expansion

·        Mormons (1847)

·        The Overland Trails

·        The California Gold Rush (1849)

 

Western emigration before and after the California gold rush
Emigration to Oregon, California & Utah: 1840-48 Tables are from John D. Unruh, Jr., The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 (paperback ed., Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1982), 84-85.
Emigration to Oregon, California & Utah: 1849-60

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