Manifest Destiny

Manifest DestinyAnnexation of Land

Mexican War

Use the image and your knowledge of United States history to answer parts A, B, and C.

John Gast, American Progress, 1872 Courtesy of Library of Congress A) Explain the point of view reflected in the image regarding ONE of the following: Migration, Technology, American Indians B) Explain how ONE element of the image expresses the point of view you identified in Part A. C) Explain how the point of view you identified in Part A helped to shape ONE specific United States government action between 1845 and 1900.

Trends in Antebellum America: 1810-Trends in Antebellum America: 1810-18601860

Trends in Antebellum America: 1810-Trends in Antebellum America: 1810-18601860

1. New intellectual and religious movements (Transcendentalism and the Second Great Awakening)

2. Social reforms.

3. Beginnings of the Market Revolution Industrial Revolution in America.

4. Re-emergence of a second party system and morepolitical democratization. (Democrats and Whigs)

5. Increase in federal power Marshall Ct. decisions.

6. Increase in American nationalism.

7. Further westward expansion.

1. New intellectual and religious movements (Transcendentalism and the Second Great Awakening)

2. Social reforms.

3. Beginnings of the Market Revolution Industrial Revolution in America.

4. Re-emergence of a second party system and morepolitical democratization. (Democrats and Whigs)

5. Increase in federal power Marshall Ct. decisions.

6. Increase in American nationalism.

7. Further westward expansion.

Aim: Should we consider the era [of Manifest Destiny] one of destiny or greed?

Vocab

Manifest Destiny

Annexation

Forty-Niners 

Wilmot Proviso

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Van Buren

Harrison Tyler

Calhoun

Clay 

Essential Questions: (1)What were the causes of westward expansion? (2)How does manifest destiny reflect Transcendentalist ideals?(3)How does manifest destiny increase sectional tensions?

“The destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent—to rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean—to animate the many hundred millions of its people and to cheer them upward—to agitate these Herculean masses—to establish a new order in human affairs—to set free the enslaved—to regenerate superannuated (old fashioned) nations...to stir up the sleep of a hundred centuries—to teach old nations a new civilization—to confirm the destiny of the human race—to unite the world in one social family—to dissolve the weight of tyranny and exalt charity—to absolve the curse that weighs down humanity, and to shed blessings around the world.”

–William Gilpin (1846)

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Mr. Manifest Destiny President James K Polk

•Elected President in 1844

•Added more territory (by any means) to the US than any other President

•Died 103 days after his single term ended

Polk’s Campaign Promises:* Annex Texas* Expand to the west* Lower tariffs* Claim Oregon territory from GB* Establish independent treasury*Only president to fulfill all of his promises

(1st)Missouri Compromise 1820, Clay second Missouri Compromise…

In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Furthermore, with the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36 degrees 30’ latitude line. In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act. Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.

Mexican-American War

"The United States will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic; Mexico will

poison us."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalist)

Spend 10 minutes answering this Question

DID THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR UNITE OR DIVIDE THE COUNTRY?

Things to keep in mind about a DBQ essay…

• Think of it as if you’re writing a FREE RESPONSE essay but you’re using the documents to support points you would make anyway.

• You must refer to specific parts of the document.

• You must explain HOW those parts support YOUR argument. “Don’t just include a quote and think that we know why you included it.”

DBQ Advice

• Start with OUTSIDE information, what you know, what claim (thesis) you want to prove.

• Figure out what position each document takes. • Are you going to use the document as further

evidence to support your point?• Are you going to use the document by REFUTING

it and pointing to its weakness/bias/inaccuracy? • What EXACTLY are you using from the

document? Which words? Statistics? Facts?

Oh, DBQ!

• Outside information • Decide the position• Bring in quotes• Quotes get explained.

Outcomes of the WarUNITE DIVIDE

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Aim: Did the Mexican-American War unite or divide the nation?

VocabPresident Polk (1845-1849)Mexican-American War (1846-1848)Rose Revolt – civil disobedience, ThoreauWilmot ProvisoTreaty of Guadalupe-HidalgoGadsden Purchase, 1853–1854The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War.Essential Questions: (1)What are the arguments for and against the Mexican-American War? (2)Do you agree with the decision to go to war? Why/why not?

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US Territorial Expansion

A

When?

From Where?

Why?

•1848

•Mexico

•Polk offers to buy G from Mexico & they refuse

•War!

•US wins

•In Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, US offers $15 million for G

B

G - Mexican Cession

D

C

E

F

G

Mexican American War

• Texas rebellion against Mexican government and US admitting it as a state – undermined Mexican government.

• US offered 30 million dollars for the land, so US sent troops to Tex/Mex border.

• Mexico didn’t recognize the Texas border. Fought over the territory.

• US military was near the Rio Grande River, Mexico wanted the soldiers out of there. US felt like a threat to Mexico.

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, 1848(Treaty forced on Mexico…)(Treaty forced on Mexico…)

Mexico gave up claims to Texas above the Rio Grande River.

Mexico gave the U. S. California and New Mexico.

U. S. gave Mexico $15,000,000 and agreed to pay the claims of American citizens against Mexico (over $3,500,000).

Results of the Mexican American War

• The 17 month war cost 100 million dollars and 13,000 lives (mostly due to disease).

• Brought new land into the union (1 million square miles including TX), which brought slavery into the forefront of American national politics.

• Upsets balance of power b/w north and south.• Created two popular Whig generals who ran

for President. • Manifest Destiny realized.

The Compromise of 1850Henry Clay, U.S. senator from Kentucky, was determined to find a solution. In 1820 he had resolved a fiery debate over the spread of slavery with his Missouri Compromise. Now, thirty years later, the matter surfaced again within the walls of the Capitol. But this time the stakes were higher -- nothing less than keeping the Union together.

There were several points at issue:

• The United States had recently acquired a vast territory -- the result of its war with Mexico. Should the territory allow slavery, or should it be declared free? Or maybe the inhabitants should be allowed to choose for themselves?

•California -- a territory that had grown tremendously with the gold rush of 1849, had recently petitioned Congress to enter the Union as a free state. Should this be allowed? Ever since the Missouri Compromise, the balance between slave states and free states had been maintained; any proposal that threatened this balance would almost certainly not win approval.

•There was a dispute over land: Texas claimed that its territory extended all the way to Santa Fe.

•Finally, there was Washington, D.C. Not only did the nation's capital allow slavery, it was home to the largest slave market in North America.

On January 29, 1850, the 70-year-old Clay presented a compromise.

According to the compromise, Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars -- money it would use to pay off its debt to Mexico.

Also, the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. (The decision would be made by the territories' inhabitants later, when they applied for statehood.)

Regarding Washington, the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, although slavery would still be permitted.

Finally, California would be admitted as a free state. To pacify slave-state politicians, who would have objected to the imbalance created by adding another free state, the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.

Of all the bills that made up the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was the most controversial.

The Mexican American War/Manifest Destiny

PRO Con

Easier and more timely to trade with Russia and China, on the other side of the Pacific. The new land we acquired is fertile for farming. Very easy to settle. Land is able to support large population of people. Many precious metals there. GOLD. Boosted America’s power, bigger country, not as new, puts America on the global map of power (military power, economic power)The US almost as big as Europe.

More land to govern, can bring up more potential problems. Millions of dollars were paid for land and many died.Mexican American War creates political division: Democrats believed this sent a message that you can’t kill US citizens on our soil. Whigs believed it cost America too much money and America was at a disadvantage after the war No benefit from this war. Further divisions/disagreements over slavery – the northerners and southerners fought equally in the war.

ESSAY