Chapter 9

Manifest Destiny• The belief that it is US destiny to expand

ocean to ocean

• To protect border from thieves and Natives- Mexico opened to American farmers

Mexico gained Independence from Spain

Stephen Austin

• Establish a colony in Texas

• Offered cheap “land grants– Settlers must obey

Mexican law– Settlers brought

their slaves

• New Mexican president– Slavery was abolished

Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana

William Travis

The battle of The Alamo

Jim Bowie Davie Crockett

Remember the Alamo

Texas Independence

Led by Sam HoustonCaptured Santa Ana Republic of Texas was createdBoundary was Rio Grande

James K. Polk- 11th president

WAR with Mexico

Zachary Taylor

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo- Rio Grande as boundary$15 million for CA, NM, UT, AZ

US annexed Texas

Gadsen Purchase- for $10 million- plan for a southern transcontinental railroad

Oregon Territory- negotiated land with Britain

Gold Rush

• Sutter’s Mill

• California, Sacramento