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2.  St Louis was the place that Lewis and Clark started their expedition  It provided a start for them a way to begin their journey and thousands of others who took their journey too  Their journey started the movement westward and when they came back thousands of others wanted to take the journey as well to a better life, the sort of started the whole manifest destiny movement.

3.  This is a fort that is stationed in Texas where general Santa Anna attacked brutally  Around 200 Texans were killed on this spot and that raged Texas in fighting back  The anger enraged general Huston and Huston caught Santa Anna and made him sign a document giving Texas independence.  This pulled more people west ward further into Texas due to it independence

4.  This is the capital of Mexico  The war between Mexico and the us ended here with the united states winning  This added Texas, California, Nevada, some of Colorado, new Mexico and Arizona to united states territory  By adding these to the us territory, the us gain the states they needed to almost finish their destiny goal

5.  Sutter’s mill is where gold was first found  The owner of the mill actually tried to hide the gold so that people from other parts of the us didn’t try to come and get his land  This sparked the gold rush that pulled thousands of people to the west to find a better life, or to become wealthy from mining gold  Which in turn put more us influence on western states

6.  This is the end of the Oregon trail  The end for thousands of people who were traveling westward  The Oregon trail brought many people and their influences to the west

7.  Georgia was the first state that decided to make Indians leave their lands  They pushed out Indians and sent them to a reservation. The trail they took was called the trail of tears  This lead to more repositions of the Indian cultures.  With this the us spread more of their own culture to their states bringing them that much closer to their supposed destiny

8.  In the end all of their actions the united states finished their goal of manifesting their destiny of the west