1. 5.1.1 Expansion
Janna and Bethany

2. Key Concept
Expansion was strengthened by economic and security interests which would bring new territories, increase migration to the west, and overseas afflictions

3. A combination of necessity and want influenced migration to the west
Mormon settlements in Utah (1847)
Pushed westward due to religious discrimination
California gold rush (1848)
News of gold brought 300,000 people to California

4. Manifest destiny drove the United States towards the Pacific Ocean
Election of 1844
James K. Polk won the election based on the favoring of the annexation of Texas
Oregon boundary treaty (1846)
To set the boundary between the United States and Canada at 49th parallel and west of the Rocky Mountains
Settled the boundary dispute between the United States and Britain
Pony Express ( )
System of mail service by horseback between Missouri and California

5. New United States territories in the west raised questions about slavery, native Americans and Mexicans
Free soil party (1848)
Short lived political party was anti-slavery
Popular sovereignty
People of a territory should be able to decide if slavery should exist there, opposed by abolitionists because they feared it would just spread slavery
Ostend Manifesto (1854)
A document that stated the United States should purchase Cuba from Spain and declare war if Spain refused