1. The 2nd Party System & Westward Expansion

2. Warm Up
What created the anti-Irish feeling in American society after 1840? How was the Know-Nothing Party a reaction to this immigration
What was the Missouri Compromise? How did it try to ‘settle’ the slavery issue?
What does the phrase ‘Manifest Destiny’ mean?
What were the causes & effects of ‘Oregon Fever’?
What are the capitals of California & TX today? How do these cities connect to their early history?
How did the horse and the buffalo shape Native American society in the west?
What does the phrase “54’40 or fight!” mean?
How was annexation of TX connected to the slavery issue?

3. What are the symbols of ‘American Progress’ in John Gast’s painting?

4. Presidents after Andrew Jackson
All one term!

5. Tyler presidency –foreign policy
Disputes with GB
Canada as a British territory offered freedom to escaped slaves
Oregon boundary 54’ 40 or 49’ parallel?
Eventually 49’ parallel will become boundary Oregon Treaty of 1846
Maine boundary with Canada –settled by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Congress wouldn’t annex Texas, so GB made overtures to Texas to help defend & get a free-trade, abolitionist foothold in the South
Congress relents in 1845 –Texas becomes 28th state

7. HAP-P

8. Manifest Destiny
Idea that God manifestly destined the American people to spread their democratic spirit across the continent
‘Empire & liberty”
Exemplified through policies of President James K. Polk ( )
Desired California, Texas & Oregon

9. Texas Abandoned by US in 1819 for FL (Adams-Onis Treaty)
Mexico declared independence in 1821
Contracted with Stephen Austin in 1823 to bring US settlers
Must be Catholic
Must become ‘mexicanized’
By 1835, nearly 30,000 settlers
In 1830, Mexico outlawed slavery & slave trade –Texans refused to comply
By 1836, full scale rebellion
Santa Anna leads Mexico to victory at The Alamo
Sam Houston’s Texans capture Santa Anna & his army at San Jacinto
Rio Grande River becomes ‘border’ b/w Texas & Mexico
Houston becomes 1st president of the Lone Star Republic
Never really enforced

10. War w/Mexico
President Polk tried to buy California in 1846 for $25 mil.
Offer refused by Mexico
Gen Zachary Taylor put on Rio Grande border leading to bloodshed; Polk asked Congress to declare war
Anti-war Congressman Abraham Lincoln called for a -‘spot resolution’
to know where in the US blood had been drawn
Congress declared war in 1846 (2nd time in US history)
US army fought all the way to Mexico City, John C. Fremont captured California
Settled by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
$15 mil for all of the Mexican Cession
Wilmot Proviso passes House, but not Senate –no slavery in Mexican Cession

12. Mexican Cession of 1848

13. Padlet –Short Answer Exercise

14. Territorial Expansion 1783 - 1848
Territory
Date Acquired
Previous Owner
How Acquired?
Original United States
1783
Louisiana Purchase
1803
Texas Annexation
1845
Oregon Country
1846
Mexican Cession
1848

15. Close
How did the industrial revolution give reinforce a southern commitment to slavery?
How was American society transformed in both the North and the South by this economic issue?
How did western expansion fuel this sectional divide?