Manifest Destiny Flashcards
The belief that America should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific provided political support for territorial expansion.
Manifest Destiny – coined by O’Sullivan
Looking for economic opportunity in the form of land to own & farm
reasons for people leave Coastal states
What were people moving West looking for
Economic opportunity in the form of land
What are the two main ways of transportation that helped people move west?
Railroads & Canals
Settled in the West and worked first in the Gold Mines. After the Civil War, they began to work on the Transcontinental Railroad. The Americans discriminate against them.
Chinese
Settle in the North and work in factories and on canals. They are discriminated against because they are Catholic, not Protestant.
Irish
American pioneers who become stranded on the voyage west & resort to cannibalism.
The Donner Party
- Thomas Jefferson is president
- Purchases it from Napoleon (France) for 15 million dollars
- He originally only wanted New Orleans so that he could control the Mississippi River
- Ends up with all the land (Napoleon needs money for his war)
- Lewis and Clark explore the territory
With the help of Sacagawea
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
America bought present-day Florida from Spain and established a border between the Louisiana Territory and Mexico (1821)
Adams-Onis Treaty
What does Andrew Jackson have to do with Florida
Forces Seminole’s in reservations in the center of Florida
- Mexico outlawed slavery in 1829 and required all immigrants to convert to Roman Catholicism
- Americans flat-out ignored this & kept on coming, bringing their slaves with them!
- By 1830, white settlers and their slaves outnumber Mexicans 3 to 1
Reasons for Friction in Texas
Becomes dictator of Mexico in 1834
General Santa Anna
- Sam Houston leads a revolt and declares Texas to be an independent republic
- Santa Anna doesn’t like this AT ALL
- (1836)
Texas War for Independence (1836)
- Santa Anna took his men to the Alamo and killed every one of the defenders
- (1836)
- Lone Star State
- 6 flags flew over Texas – Spain, France, Mexico, - the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States, and the United States.
- Only state that was an independent nation
Texas in 1836