1. By jamequia Benton

2.  Expasion westward perfectly natural to many americans in the mid- nineteenth

3.  Huge area of land that layed between pacific ocean and the rocky mountain north of California Washington,Oregon & Idaho  Treaty with great britian 2000 mile journey started in independence crossed the great plains Platte river, Columbia river, snake river  Line lattitude that democrat believed should be nations border

4.  Texans won their independence from Mexico and asked to be admitted to the united states  in October 2, 1835 with the battle of Gonzales  1803 when the Louisiana territory from France  Took his father land grant recruited 300 americans families to settle the land along the Brazos river they called it the old three hundreds  The decree stopped all immigration from the united states ; also encouraged the immigration of Mexican and European families with generous land grant s angered Texans.  General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna  Spanish Mission in San Antonio in 1836, the mission held a Small force of 180 Texans led by Williams B. Trans Santa Anna Defeated all of the Texans.  March 2,1836  Washington – on –the-Brazos  Sam Houston

5.  April 21  Remember the Alamo ! Remember the Goliad  Santa Anna signed a treaty that recognized the independence of Texas  Because the addition of another slave state would upset the balance of slave and free states and congress  December 29, 1845  James k. Polk

6.  New Mexico, Arizona,Nevada, and Utah and parts of Colorado and Wyoming  It’s a trade route to the west that went to Missouri to new Mexico.  Americans begin settling the region  Spanish explored and missionaries from Mexico had the first had the first Europeans to settle in California.  Mild climate, scenic beauty and abundance natural resources  That way the nation would be safety bordered by sea instead of a foreign power.  Rio Grande  Nueces river American troops would drive Mexicans forces out of the dispute bordered region then Texas made the border secure

7.  The gold was in California (1849)  The people that came to the mine were called the forty nines  They had to go over sierra Nevada mountain range  Mexico, south America,Europe,Australia, and china