Manifest+Destiny

Brendan Mingle Manifest Destiny =**__Timeline:__**= media type="custom" key="24890382" =__**Presidents:**__=

= __**John Tyler:**__ = __**James K Polk**__ =__**Vocabulary:**__=
 * Elected Vice President and became the 10th President when Harrison died
 * Responsible for annexing texas after receiving mandate from Polk
 * Opposed many parts of Whig program for economic recovery
 * The 11th President
 * President in March 1845 to 1849
 * wanted to settle Oregon Boundary dispute with Britain, acquire, California, and to incorporate Texas into Union
 * Firm believer in Manifest Destiny and it won him the presidential election vs. Henry Clay
 * Andrew Jackson's protege



__**What is Manif****est Destiny:**__
 * Belief that it is America's "God Given" right to expand Coast
 * Time Period 1840's and 1850's
 * has roots with Louisiana Purchase and Indian Removal Act

__**Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo:**__
 * February 2 1848, The agreement between President Polk and the new Mexican government for Mexico to cede California and New Mexico to the US and acknowledge the Rio Grand as the boundary of Texas.

__**Oregon**__
 * Four Countries originally had claims for the Oregon Territory (Britain, US, Spain, and Russia)
 * Britain and US continue interest
 * Boundary was not settled between the US and British Canada
 * Polk campaigned "54 40' or fight"
 * America settled for the 49th parallel

__**Texas:**__
 * 1836 Declared Indepence in from Mexico
 * 1844 presidential campaign focused on Texas
 * Henry Clay v. James K. Polk
 * Polk was for annexing Texas and Manifest Destiny
 * Henry flip flopped on the issue which cost him the election
 * 1845 Texas annexed via joint resolution
 * The South favored the annexation as a way to expand slavery
 * Boundary was not officially settled between the US and Mexico

__**Mexican American War:**__
 * Causes
 * Texas Boundary Mexico said it was the Nueces while Polk said it was the Rio Grande
 * "American Blood on American Soil" was Polk's argument to have congress approve war with Mexico
 * Abraham Lincoln earned the nickname "Spotty Lincoln" because he repeatedly asked Polk to point to the spot where the fighting took place
 * Effects
 * US gains Mexican Cession ( modern day California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico)
 * US expands from coast to coast
 * Wilmot Proviso
 * Keep slavery out of Mexican Cession
 * Past House but not Senate
 * Past House but not Senate



__**Impacts of Manifest Destiny:**__
 * Native Americans
 * lost land and Pushed farther and farther West
 * Indian Removal Act (1830)
 * Trail of Tears (1830)
 * Forced onto reservations
 * Slavery
 * put into national spotlight
 * Politics
 * Birth of Republican Party
 * Republican platform was to contain slavery

__** Oregon Trail: **__
 * Pioneer trail that began in Missouri and crossed the Great Plains into the Oregon Territory
 * Was used by settlers moving west for the acquisition of land

=__**Primary Sources:**__=

__**Thoreau: Walden, On Civil Disobedience:**__
 * Thoreau was a transcendentalist who lived in the woods for two years to write about the truths of life and nature
 * Thoreau was a believer in nonviolent protest
 * In his essay "On Civil Disobedience" Thoreau presents his argument for not obeying unjust laws.
 * The act of disobedience was refusing to pay a tax that went to the "unjust" war with Mexico
 * inspired nonviolent protest with Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr


 * __Polk: 54-40 of Fight!__**
 * Britain and US have common interest in Oregon Treaty
 * Boundary was not settled between the US and British Canada
 * Polk campaigned "54 40' or fight" which means he would go to war to secure this territory
 * America settled for the 49th parallel

__**John L. O'Sullivan: Democratic Review, 1845**__ > used the term Manifest Destiny to promote Texas being annexed as well as Oregon Territory.
 * an American columnist and editor for Harper's Magazine
 * O'Sullivan was an influential writer for the Democrats

__**Polk: Declaration of War:**__
 * Texas Boundary Mexico said it was the Nueces while Polk said it was the Rio Grande
 * "American Blood on American Soil" was Polk's argument to have congress approve war with Mexico
 * United States trounced Mexico and acquired the Mexican Cession

__**Wilmot: Proviso:**__
 * Banned Slavery from Mexican Cession territory
 * South not in favor
 * passed in the House of Representatives, but failed in Senate

=__**Essential Questions:**__=

__**Why did the U.S. go to war with Mexico?**__
 * U.S went to war with Mexico Shortly after the annexation of Texas to secure the boarder
 * Polk dispatched John Slidell as a envoy to mexican government
 * Polk ordered troops towards the Rio Grande, claimed territory by Mexico, and Mexican army attacked killing 11
 * Polk Claimed "American Blood was Shed on American Soil"
 * Whigs didn't believe it was American Soil but the majority in both Houses approved

__**Did congress have the authority to restrict slavery in the territories:**__
 * If Slaves are considered property then under the Constitution the federal government does not have the right to contain slavery to it's current boundaries
 * But if Slaves are not to be considered as property, but as man, then Congress has the right to disallow slavery as infringing upon the inalienable rights of man.

__**Would the victory over Mexico help lead to the Civil War?**__ =__**Bibliography:**__= >
 * Yes. Victory over Mexico as well as the annexation of Texas helped lead to the Civil War\
 * These two events put slavery into the National spotlight
 * Created another issue, allowing slavery within Texas and Mexican Cession, for the North and South to debate and disagree upon.
 * while not the issue that caused the war it was another event leading to the inevitable Civil War
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