1. Today’s Agenda How did the USA achieve Manifest Destiny?
Do Now: pass up writing assignment
HW: 33 due tomorrow,
Vocab due Thursday
Test Thursday

2. MANIFEST DESTINY

4. LOUISIANA YEAR: 1803 COUNTRY: FRANCE
LOCATION: Mississippi River to the Rocky Mts.
HOW: Purchased from Napoleon

5. FLORIDA Year: 1819 Country: Spain Location: South East
How: Adams-Onis Treaty

6. OREGON YEAR: 1846 COUNTRY: Great Britain WHERE: North West
HOW: We agreed to share land with GB

7. TEXAS YEAR: 1845 COUNTRY: MEXICO WHERE: South West
HOW: Annexation (to add on)
Started the Mexican American War!

8. Mexican Cession YEAR: 1848 COUNTRY: MEXICO
WHERE: Rio Grande River to the Pacific Ocean (From New Mexico to California)
Ceded from Mexico

9. Gadsden Year: 1853 Country: Mexico
Where: southern part of Arizona and New Mexico
How: Gadsen Purchase, US paid Mexico 10 million
Land we needed to build railroad
Also an attempt to end conflicts after the Mexican American War

10. Today’s Agenda How did the USA achieve Manifest Destiny?
Do Now: have HW 33 out to be checked
Vocab due Thursday
Test Thursday

12. MORMONS
The Mormons are a religious group started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York
Eventually they settle in the Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah to escape discrimination

13. WHY DID MANY AMERICANS TRAVEL TO CALIFORNIA IN THE 1840’S?
Gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento in 1849
President Polk wanted California because it had rich farmland, was populated with Americans and new businesses could develop

14. FORTY-NINERS
People who rushed to California to find gold in 1849 (80,000)