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Manifest Destiny. Chapter 9. Objectives. Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny. Explain the causes and challenges of westward migration. Migrating to the West. Americans sought economic opportunity NM, oldest colony along New Spain’s northwestern frontier - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Manifest DestinyChapter 9
Objectives Explain the concept of Manifest
Destiny.
Explain the causes and challenges of westward migration.
Migrating to the West
Americans sought economic opportunity
NM, oldest colony along New Spain’s northwestern frontier 9,600 Hispanics live there 1765
El Paso and Santa Fe Discouragement
1. threat of war with nomadic Native Americans
2. Apaches, nomads of Great Plains
Perpetual WarfareCompetition for buffaloComanches and LakotasApaches raid Pueblo
and Spanish settlements in NM (N.W. NM Navajos)
Protection of NMStronger frontier defenses
and more flexible diplomacy with nomadsGave gifts made
alliances with Comanches
No Love for Texas NM growth and improved
security did not extend to TX
Distant Poor Subject to raids
California Isolation Too far to market (export
livestock and grains) Needed royal money to
supply/pay soldiers Lack of guns and horses allow
for Christian missions Father Junípero Serra Allowed for growth (construction
of buildings, irrigation ditches, erected fences, herded cattle, and cultivated grain
Looking Westward 1821, revolution Spanish rule toppled
Mexico made independent republic Expansionists look towards CA, NM,
and TX Weakness of Mexican government/economy Mexicans inferior America needed land Manifest Destiny
Santa Fe Trail Independent Mexico and America
begin trading Santa Fe Trail
Opened trade across Great Plains to Santa Fe, NM
American manufactured goods horses, mules, fur, silver
Mariners from Northeast sailed around South America to CA coast Tallow and hides manufactured
goods
Santa Fe Trail Map
Mountain Men Daring young American
trappers who hunted beaver pelts in the Rockies
Jedediah Smith, 1826 Crossed Great Basin and Sierra
Nevada to reach CA Traded with Mexican residents His trade and migration route
became the California Trail, linking the US with the Pacific Coast
Oregon Trail A variant of this trail turned northwest at
South Pass to reach Oregon Country Found Indian mission at Walla Walla