1. Manifest Destiny

2. Settling the Frontier Expansion grips the country Manifest Destiny
Economic possibilities

3. Trails West Santa Fe Trail (780 miles) Covered wagons Oregon Trail
“Prairie Schooners”

4. The Mormon Migration Joseph Smith (founder on Mormonism)
Smith murdered by an anti-mormon mob
Brigham Young
Salt Lake City

5. Texan land grants Mexico encourages Americans to settle Texas
Cheap Land
Stephen F. Austin
Texas’s Old Three Hundred

6. Texas Revolution Cultural differences with Tejanos
Mexico abolished slavery
Santa Anna
“If I were God, I would wish to be more.”

7. The Alamo Mission and fort in San Antonio Texas declares independence
13 day siege
Sam Houston
Treaty of Velasco

8. War with Mexico Texas Annexation President James K. Polk
Wanted New Mexico and California
Mexico doesn't receive ambassador

9. The War Begins US invades California War officially declared
Contingent sent to Santa Fe
New Mexico won without shots being fired

10. Republic of California
American settlers seize Sonoma
General Fremont
US takes control of California

12. America Wins the War American victories in Mexico War lasts a year
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
US gives $15 million for Mexican cession
Gadsden Purchase (10 Million)

13. California Gold Rush Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill 1848
News spread quick
Mass Migration Westward
Population exceeded 100,000
Forty-niners
Asians, European, South Americans

14. The Golden Economy
Gold financed farming, manufacturing, shipping, and banking
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San Francisco
Rush over by 1853
$2 Billion in Gold Found