America Achieves Manifest Destiny The Gadsden Purchase, the Wilmot Proviso, and the California Gold Rush

 What formally ended the Mexican-American War?  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo  (Mexican Cession)  US adds 1.2 million square miles  Mexico was humiliated by the treaty, bitter toward US for many years

 US added more territory with the Gadsden Purchase (1853)  Bought from Mexico, consisted of the southern parts of Arizona & New Mexico  Needed to run transcontinental RR How is this further contributing to Manifest Destiny?

 What issue continued to divide the nation? –SLAVERY, and its expansion  Whig Congressman David Wilmot proposes the Wilmot Proviso:  Proposed law would ban slavery in all lands won from Mexico  Law DID NOT pass  Lands won from Mexico increased North/South tensions  Proposed in Congress for 15 more years Why do you think the Wilmot Proviso didn’t pass?

The Mexican Cession

California Gold Rush, er’s

 The California Gold Rush  What was it?  Mass migration to California after the discovery of gold in 1848  Who was involved?  “49ers” = Gold Rush miners  Where did they come from?  Across the US & other Pacific Rim nations (South America, China)

Digging for Gold in California

 The California Gold Rush - Effects  Conditions of the camps  Crowded, poor sanitation, violence  Population boom of…  San Francisco  Groups facing discrimination  Indians, Chinese, & Mexicans; taxed, terrorized

Two Views of San Francisco, Early 1850s  By 1860, almost 300,000 people had traveled the Oregon & California Trails to the Pacific coast.

 The California Gold Rush - Effects  ____________ applies for statehood…  California  Increases the debate over…  Slavery  15 free states, 15 slave  Would later lead to the…  Civil War