Manifest Destiny

Question 1

Define manifest destiny

Answer 1

The belief that it is God-given right to expand West

Question 2

What was the significance of the Ohio River Basin/Valley?

Answer 2

-extremely fertile (big attraction for Southerners)
-Governor of Virginia makes deal. offers plots of land on OHB for low price to escape overcrowded place of Virginia to his people.
Drawbacks: going to encounter Native Americans and French

Question 3

Why did French settle in OHB?

Answer 3

It was uncharted and so there was a debate over who owned land (Native Americans, Britain, or France)

Question 4

British colonists were unarmed. So…

Answer 4

So the Virginia militia was lead by George Washington. The militia was no match for the French.

Question 5

French-Indian War

Answer 5

Basically France VS Britain (Britain wins)

• Indians sided with France because believed French would help them
• French lose so have to give up territory
• Britain disallows anyone from going past Appalachian mountains. Colonists mad because they fought!

Question 6

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 6

• Bought in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson

- result of US wanting this territory and France wanting to give up territory

Question 7

Let’s talk about Napoleon

Answer 7

1800s - crowned himself Supreme Ruler of France. wanted to expand resources

Question 8

What about Cherokees

Answer 8

-resided in Georgia
-overall very peaceful
-want to be Americans
-willing to go through steps like CONVERTING TO CHRISTIANITY
1827 - drafted own constitution and sent to Congress
-basically took 1st part of Preamble
-God is referenced as “Ruler of the Universe”
-their religion is nature and spirits and stuff
-wanted to show that they were open to American government

Question 9

Okay there’s a section called Cherokee Nation

Answer 9

• really wanted to be americanized
• become naturalized to culture and religion
• peaceful

Question 10

Constitution of the Cherokees (1827)

Answer 10

• sent to Congress

- tried to show Congress that they would like to embrace American democracy if they had resources

Question 11

Article III, Section 4 (Cherokee legislative body)

Answer 11

• modeled after H.o.R. (25 years old)
• have to be free, male, Cherokee to have position
• CANNOT have any African descent. but you see, Cherokees ARE a racial minority. they harbor the same stereotypes as whites would with the blacks
• adopting racist persona to differentiate themselves from Black community

Question 12

Indian Removal Act (1830)

Answer 12

• successful in removing predominantly Cherokee and others to Oklahoma
• Congress wrote and passed this when Andrew Jackson was president.

Question 13

Compromise of 1763

Answer 13

-colonists not allowed to live west of Appalachians even though they helped win war

Question 14

Reasons for expansion

Answer 14

• access to resources
• solution to urban crowding
• solution to “Black problem”. fear of racial mixing because they thought that blacks were violent by nature. blocked whites from savage beasts.

Question 15

What was the “Black problem”

Answer 15

• blacks could threaten national security
• susceptible to any European influence
• might team up with Europe and take down US
• so they wanted to get all blacks in texas

Question 16

Expansion during Antebellum America

Answer 16

Indian Removal Act (1830)
Texas annexed (1845)
Oregon below 49th parallel (1846)
California, New Mexico (1848)
Irony: we were trying to break free from colonial imperialism but we were doing the same thing

Question 17

California

Answer 17

direct result of US having citory in Mexican war