1. Section 9-2
Manifest
Destiny

2. What is Manifest Destiny?
First coined by newspaper editor, John O’Sullivan in 1845.
The belief that America had the god given right to expand the U.S.’s borders from “sea to shining sea”
by John Gast, 1872

3. How the borders of the continental U.S. are formed.
Land Acquisitions
How the borders of the continental U.S. are formed.

4. Original 13 Colonies When? - 1776 From Where? - Great Britain Why?
- U.S. declared independence

5. Louisiana Purchase When? - 1803 From Where? - France Why?
- Napoleon needed the money
**Effect:
- U.S. doubles size

6. Adams-Onis Treaty When? - 1819 From Where? - Spain Why?
- Andrew Jackson invaded

7. Aroostook “War” When? - 1839 From Where? - Canada Why?
- border dispute between the U.S.
state of Maine &
Canada

8. The Republic of Texas When? - 1845 From Where? - Republic of Texas
Why?
- Texas asked to
be admitted as a
U.S. state

9. Oregon Territory When? - 1846 From Where? - Great Britain Why?
- President Polk
wanted to annex
Oregon Territory
- want 54o 40’ (or Fight) BUT settled for
49th parallel

10. Mexican War When? - 1848 From Where? - Mexico Why? - President Polk
offers to buy land
from Mexico… they refuse so we
take it from them!

11. Gadsden’s Purchase When? - 1853 From Where? - Mexico Why?
- U.S. wanted to
build railroad thru
that area… paid
Mexico $10 million

12. Ostend Manifesto When? - 1854 From Where? - Latin America Why?
- Secret document leaked to U.S. public… plans to take Cuba from Spain… make it a slave state!

13. Black Hawk War Early 1830s Wisconsin & Illinois
Chief Black Hawk fights the U.S.
Forced relocation of Sauk & Fox tribes to Arkansas Territory

14. Treaty of Fort Laramie 1851 Native Am. east of the Rocky Mts.
U.S. Govt. pledges to honor boundaries & make annual payments… they lied!
White settlers deplete hunting grounds and kill off buffalo and elk.

15. Settlers Headed to Oregon

16. The Oregon & Santa Fe Trail (1840s)

17. Overland Immigration to the West
Between 1840 and 1860, more than 250,000 people made the trek westward.

18. The Oregon Trail Started in Independence, Missouri
Ended in Portland, Oregon
Traveled by wheeled covered Conestoga Wagons
Took 4-6 months
Many people died

19. The Oregon Trail

20. What Did They Bring?

21. The Doomed Donner Party
April, 1846 – April, 1847

22. The Doomed Donner Party
CANNIBALISM !
Margaret Patrick John Breen Breen Breen
Of the 83 members of the Donner Party, only 45 survived to get to California!
James Reed & Wife

23. Santa Fe Trail
780 mile trade route from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
During the Mexican War, a military route for the U.S. Army

24. Mormons to Utah
Joseph Smith leads Mormons from NY to Nauvoo, Illinois 1839
People angry about Mormon polygamy
Smith put in jail in 1844 and murdered
Brigham Young leads Mormons to Utah

25. Resources Darrell Wells – Hickory Ridge HS, NC
Susan Pojer – Horace Greely HS, NY