Manifest Destiny

Question 1

What is the definition of Manifest Destiny and who started it?

Answer 1

It was the “God given right” to expand westwards. John O’Sullivan.

Question 2

What was the “Great American Desert (1820)?”

Answer 2

Land that was unfit for human survival and cultivation (Missouri to Rocky Mountains).

Question 3

What happened in Oregon in the 1840s?

Answer 3

1. There was a Missionary Movement. (Dr Marcus/Narcissa Whitman, “Oregon Fever”)
2. Also the British joint occupied Oregon(ended in 1846). “Fifty-four Forty or Flight”

Question 4

What was the criteria of owning land in Texas?

Answer 4

Owning land:

1. Catholic
2. No slaves
3. Give up citizenship

Question 5

What happened during the Texas Revolution in 1836?

Answer 5

1. Alamo: 13 day siege, Santa Ana: 250 Americans were killed.
2. Texas was an independent country aka the Lone Star Republic and The president was Sam Houston.
3. Mexico breaks off diplomatic relations with U.S.

Question 6

Why was the Mexican-American War important?

Answer 6

1. sectionalism//Wilmot Proviso: no slavery new territory acquired in war.
2. 1st Anti-War Protest: Whigs. Thoreau, Webster, J.Q. Adams, Robert Winthrop, and Lincoln were against the war.

Question 7

Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo (1848)

Answer 7

1. US pays Mexico $15 million
2. Mexico ceded California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah (Texas state).

-War ends and mining boomed!