1. Westward Expansion
Manifest Destiny

3. Louisiana Purchase Why did Napoleon sell it?
What kind of a constitutional dilemma did this pose for Jefferson?
Strategic Significance
What were the objectives of the the Corps of Discovery led by Lewis & Clark?
Impact of the exploration

4. Trails West – Santa Fe

5. Oregon Trail

6. Oregon trail Trail blazed by two Methodist missionaries in 1836
Marcus & Narcissa Whitman
Prairie schooners
Eventually killed by Indians they went to proselytize

7. Donnor Party
Ill-fated Donnor Party became stuck in the Sierra Nevada Mountain
Many starved
Some resorted to cannibalism
Controversy surrounding how they ended up on that pass.

8. Donnor Party Campsite

9. Mormon migration
The Mormons were a religious group founded by Joseph Smith.
They were persecuted due to their beliefs about polygamy & church & state.
Brigham Young led the Mormons to Utah after severe persecution.

10. Austin’s Settlement of Texas
Why did Mexico allow Austin and his followers settle in Mexico?
What conditions did the settlers agree to?
What were the pull factors that attracted the settlers to Texas?
What happened to sour Mexican policy toward the settlers?

11. Calls for Independence
Despite peaceful relations between Tejanos & Anglos differences arose between the Texans & the Mexican gov
Austin presented a petition to Santa Anna for greater self-gov
Santa Anna had him jailed & suspended local powers in Texas.
Santa Anna marched to put down the rebellion
First confrontation took place at the Alamo.
Texans were trying to stall Santa Anna so that

12. Texas Revolution
Lt Colonel Wm Travis moved his men into the Alamo to keep Santa Anna from moving North.
Eventually Santa Anna subdued the rebels & executed all187 defenders.
Later he executed 300 at Goliad.
San Houston won battle at San Jacinto with shouts of “Remember the Alamo”.

13. Captured Santa Anna and then set him free after he signed Treaty of Velasco.
The US refused to annex Texas due to “sectional” divisions
So Texas became an independent republic know as the Lone Star Republic?

14. The Alamo

16. Mexican-American War
Pres Polk was an expansionist & tried to negotiate the sale of TX, New Mexico and California
Mexicans refused.
Polk ordered troops into disputed Mexican territory between the Nueces & Rio Grande
Fremont violated Mexican territorial rights in CA.
Mexico responded in border skirmish which left 11 Americans dead.
Polk declared war.
New Mexico fell without a shot being fired.
Upper class Mexicans there joined the US.

17. Republic of California
American settlers seized the town of Sonoma and declared CA the Bear Flag Republic.
Mexicans gave up

19. Treaty of guadalupe-hidalgo 1848

20. What US Got from Treaty? Paid $15 million for the Mexican Cession
Included the states of CA, NE, CO, UT, NM, AZ
Mexico recognized the Rio Grande River as the southern border
In 1853 US paid an additional $10 million for the Gadsden Purchase which was necessary for a southern railroad route

21. California Gold Rush
1849 James Marshall discovers gold on the Sacramento River at Sutter’s Mill.
Led to one of the largest migrations ever in history
Massive transfer of wealth ($2 billion)
49ers & Gold Fever
Transformed the CA economy forever
Boom and Ghost towns
Chinese

22. Events leading up to the Civil War
North/South Economies
New states, new problems
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Free Soilers
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding KS
Dred Scott
Harper’s Ferry
Election of Lincoln
Secession
Fort Sumtner