Manifest Destiny

“Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”

-John L. O’Sullivan,1845

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:Americans believe it is their destiny to expand the US

borders to the Pacific.

John Gast’s “American Progress,” 1872

WHAT WERE THE REASONS FOR WESTWARD MIGRATION?

Look at page 260-1. How would you RANK them?MANIFEST DESTINY

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Laptop Activity

• Visithttp://www.wisconsinhistory.org/teachers/lessons/secondary/blackhawk.asp

• Compare and Contrast The Native American accounts of the Massacre at Bad Axe with those of the Settlers.

• What do you think really happened?

Settlers and Native

Americans1832: Black Hawk WarChief Black Hawk leads Sauk and Fox nations as they fight US

expansion in Illinois. Sauk and Fox forced west of the Mississippi. Gen. Winfield Scott leads US forces.

1851: Fort Laramie TreatyCheyenne Arapaho, Sioux, and Crow agree to allow settlers to

move through the Great Plains. US to pay the Nations and to respect their boundaries. Frequently violated by US.

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Indian Nations then and Nowhttp://www.time.com/time/2002/

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Time Magazine’s Lewis and Clark bicentennial

TRAILS WESTSanta Fe Trail –Trade route from

Independence, Missouri to Sante Fe , a distance of over 780 miles. Used primarily from 1821 to 1848.

Oregon Trail – Started in 1836 by Missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Followed some of Lewis and Clark’s journey, traveling from Independence, Missouri to Portland, Oregon, a journey of over 2000 miles.

Oregon Trail

“Prairie Schooners”

Joseph Smith and the Mormons

• All American religion, created in US• Mormons move from Ohio to Missouri & Illinois.• Communitarian sect not popular• Mormon militia arouses fear• Polygamy unpopular• 1844 Mormons flee Illinois after mobs murder Smith • Brigham Young leads Mormons west to Utah, 1846-1847,

est. frontier cooperative theocracy• Conflict with federal govt. over polygamy, threatens

fighting, over polygamy delays statehood to 1896

http://www.pbs.org/americanprophet/joseph-smith.html

JOSEPH SMITH“Affected by the great religious excitement

taking place around his home in Manchester, New York, in 1820, fourteen-year-old Joseph was determined to know which of the many religions he should join. …Early one morning in the spring of 1820, Joseph went to a secluded woods …, while praying Joseph was visited by two "personages" who identified themselves as God the Father and Jesus Christ. He was told not to join any of the churches.

In 1823, Joseph Smith said he was visited by an angel named Moroni, who told him of an ancient record containing God's dealings with the former inhabitants of the American continent. In 1827, Joseph retrieved this record, inscribed on thin golden plates, and shortly afterward began translating its words by the "gift of God."3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. Joseph was persecuted much of his adult life and was killed along with his brother Hyrum by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844.”

Brigham Young“When Joseph Smith was murdered by an anti-Mormon mob in 1844, Brigham Young wason the East Coast gathering converts and raising money for the construction of an enormous temple in Nauvoo. On his return, Young played a critical role in keeping the savagely persecuted church together by organizing the exodus that would take the Mormons westward, first to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in 1846, and finally on to Utah's Salt Lake Valley, where Young and an advance party arrived on July 24, 1847. Here Young hoped the Mormons would at last find the freedom to worship and live as their faith decreed. Late in 1847 his leadership was confirmed when he was named president and prophet of the church, inheriting the authority of Joseph Smith.”

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COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE SANTE FE, THE OREGON TRAIL, AND THE MORMON

TRAIL

Map: The Election of 1844

The Election of 1844The election of 1844 demonstrated one incontestable fact: the annexation of Texas had more national support than Clay had realized. The surging popular sentiment for expansion that made the underdog Polk rather than Clay the man of the hour reflected a growing conviction among the people that America's natural destiny was to expand into Texas and all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

President Polk the Purposeful

Polk narrowly defeats Clay in 1844.Polk is an Expansionist Democrat.

POLK’S FOUR GOALS:1. Lower tariff2. Restore an independent treasury3. Settle dispute over Oregon4. Acquire California

Map: Oregon Boundary Dispute

Oregon Boundary DisputeAlthough demanding that Britain cede the entire Oregon Territory south of 54°40', the United States settled for a compromise at the forty-ninth parallel. SLOGAN: “Fifty four forty or fight!” Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company.

The Oregon Treaty

June 15, 1846

ART. I. From the point of the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, where the boundary laid down in existing treaties and conventions between the United States and Great Britain terminates, the line of boundary between the territories of the United States and those of her Britannic Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean: Provided, however, That the navigation of the whole of the said channel and straits, south of the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, remain free and open to both parties.

Maine: War with Canada?Canadian Bacon?

• 1837: US Steamer Caroline attacked while ferrying supplies to insurrectionists in Canada, is destroyed.

• War threatens b/w US and GB over land route to Quebec cutting through Northern Maine

• Lord Ashburton and Secretary Webster renegotiate Maine’s boundaries, swapping land.

• 1842: War is averted.

MAINEBOUNDARY

SETTLEMENT1842

Blue line=current border

Yellow line=British claim

Red line=US claim

http://www.upperstjohn.com/history/northeastborder.htm