1. Expansionism rapid settlement & economic development of the West

2. EXPANSIONISM Advance to the Mississippi Manifest Destiny
Texas Independence and Annexation
The War Against Mexico
Westward Expansionism

3. Expanding Settlement, 1810-1850

4. EXPANSIONISM The Advance to the Mississippi Harrison Land Act of 1800
Federal Land sales
New territories - Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois
Alabama, Missouri
160 acres for .50 cents an acre
4 yrs to pay at 1.50 per acre
Great Plantations appeared in Alabama and Mississippi
Planters from Virginia, the Carolinas &
Georgia moved inland

5. EXPANSIONISM The Advance to the Mississippi
Indian Removal East of the Mississippi
The Trail of Tears
John C. Calhoun, Monroe's Secretary of War established a resettlement policy of Indians beyond Missouri Rivers
by 1830's completed
William Henry Harrison destroyed Indian power in Northwest.
Andrew Jackson crushed the Creeks & Cherokees of the Southeast

6. EXPANSIONISM Manifest Destiny
"Our manifest destiny (is) to overspread the
continent allotted by Providence for the free
development of our yearly multiplying millions."
John O' Sullivan
"Democratic Review”
1845

7. EXPANSIONISM Texas Independence American Immigration to Texas
Independence Declared
Battle of the Alamo
Lone Star Republic 1836
Sam Houston (Portrait Gallery)

8. EXPANSIONISM Texas Annexation 1845 The Democrats and Expansion
Polk Elected
U.S. agrees to annex Texas 1845
Texas /Mexico Border Dispute
U.S. states Rio Grande River
Mexico claims Nueces River
Mexican order to prohibit U.S immigration to CA
Bear Flag Revolt 1845
James K. Polk (Portrait Gallery)

9. EXPANSIONISM The War Against Mexico 1846-1848 War and Expansionism
Zachary Taylor advances from Nueces to Rio Grande
11 Americans killed by Mexicans on 3/8/46
U.S. declared war
1700 Americans died, 4000 Mexicans,
most die from disease
Zinn p.162
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo July 4, 1848
Texas, CA & New Mexico & 1 million sq. miles become a part of the United States
U.S. paid $15 million

10. EXPANSIONISM
The Mexican War,

11. EXPANSIONISM Westward Expansion 1820-1840’s Early Explorers Trappers
Lewis & Clark
Zeb Pike
Trappers
Hudson Bay Co.
American Fur Co.
Rocky Mt. Fur Co.
Mountain Men
Jed Smith
Josiah Walker
Surveyors/Scouts
John C. Fremont ’s
Western Trails

12. EXPANSIONISM

13. EXPANSIONISM Westward Expansion The Mormons 1830-1851
Early Settlers/ Conestoga Wagons
1840’s to Oregon & CA
Applegates, Lassens, Bidwells, Bartlesons, Donner Party

14. EXPANSIONISM Westward Expansion Oregon Territory “Joint Occupation”
The Westward Migration
The Oregon Trail 
Growing American Settlements
The Oregon Boundary, 1846

15. “54’ 40” or Fight!” Compromise over Oregon Britain relinquished all
territorial claims 1846
The Oregon Boundary, 1846

16. EXPANSIONISM Westward Expansion Gold Discovery in California 1848
In ,000 would be miners set out overland from Missouri to CA
Another 25,000 made it by sea
Few became rich, but the hundreds
of thousands pushed CA
towards statehood

18. The Gold Rush

20. The Mother Lode

24. EXPANSIONISM Westward Expansion Gadsden Purchase
bought from Mexico for 10 mill
Mail routes/Pony Express
Transcontinental Railroad 1869

25. EXPANSIONISM