1. Westward Expansion
Key Concept 5.1

2. Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
This ideology was used as a motivation for most of our expansionist actions throughout the 1800s and early 1900s.

3. Westward Expansion

4. Causes of Westward Expansion
Economic interests
National security interests
Idea of racial and cultural superiority

5. Economic and Security Issues
National Security
Trade: Opening of Japan 1853
Desire for resources: Railroad, Gold Rush and mining, ranching and farming, Homestead Act.
Gadsden Purchase: Railroad and connections to the Pacific
Land acquisition: Mexican Territory, Annexation of Texas, Indian Wars, purchases like Gadsden, Alaska and Louisiana

7. Racial and Cultural Superiority
Nativist Movement (start at 2:15): Know-Nothings
Ethnic enclaves
More immigration: Japan, China, Mexico
Desire to spread culture and religion

8. Effects of Westward Expansion
Wars: Indian Wars, Mexican-American War, Civil War New markets, more land opened up to farming, changes in land usage Land Acquisition Ideological conflicts: Slavery, increased violence Native vs. Whites

9. Slavery Ideological clash: North Vs. South = Sectionalism
Missouri Compromise 1820
Compromise 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Abolition and Resistance