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Manifest Destiny Chapter 9

Manifest Destiny Chapter 9. Objectives Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny. Explain the causes and challenges of westward migration

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Page 1: Manifest Destiny Chapter 9. Objectives  Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny.  Explain the causes and challenges of westward migration

Manifest DestinyChapter 9

Page 2: Manifest Destiny Chapter 9. Objectives  Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny.  Explain the causes and challenges of westward migration

Objectives

Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny.

Explain the causes and challenges of westward migration.

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Migrating to the West

Americans sought economic opportunity

NM, oldest colony along New Spain’s northwestern frontier 9,600 Hispanics live there 1765

El Paso and Santa Fe

Discouragement 1. threat of war with nomadic

Native Americans 2. Apaches, nomads of Great Plains

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Perpetual Warfare

Competition for buffalo

Comanches and Lakotas

Apaches raid Pueblo and Spanish settlements in NM (N.W. NM Navajos)

Protection of NMStronger frontier defenses

and more flexible diplomacy with nomadsGave gifts made

alliances with Comanches

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No Love for Texas

NM growth and improved security did not extend to TX

Distant

Poor

Subject to raids

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California Isolation

Too far to market (export livestock and grains)

Needed royal money to supply/pay soldiers

Lack of guns and horses allow for Christian missions Father Junípero Serra Allowed for growth (construction

of buildings, irrigation ditches, erected fences, herded cattle, and cultivated grain

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Looking Westward

1821, revolution Spanish rule toppled Mexico made independent republic

Expansionists look towards CA, NM, and TX Weakness of Mexican

government/economy Mexicans inferior America needed land Manifest Destiny

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Santa Fe Trail Independent Mexico and America

begin trading

Santa Fe Trail Opened trade across Great Plains to

Santa Fe, NM American manufactured goods

horses, mules, fur, silver

Mariners from Northeast sailed around South America to CA coast Tallow and hides manufactured

goods

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Santa Fe Trail Map

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Mountain Men

Daring young American trappers who hunted beaver pelts in the Rockies

Jedediah Smith, 1826 Crossed Great Basin and Sierra

Nevada to reach CA Traded with Mexican residents His trade and migration route

became the California Trail, linking the US with the Pacific Coast

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Oregon Trail

A variant of this trail turned northwest at South Pass to reach Oregon Country Found Indian mission at Walla Walla