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Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion
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Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion
BY: Alicia Zuniga-Felix
1840
1840's
In the 1840's expansion fever gripped the country. The abundance of new land invited pepople to seek new lives. People from the East moved West toescape ecomomic problems. By doing this pioneers belived they were helping the couontries "manifest destiny", which was the belief that the United States would expanded to the Pacifc Ocean, Mexican and Native American territory.
1840's
- Settlers used old Native American trails
- Santa Fe Trail was the busiest, streching at about 780 miles
- Mormons migrated west to escape persecution.
- 1847 Mormons stopped at the edge of the desert near Great Salt Lake, in Utah.
- 1842 the Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled border disputes between the United States and British North America.
- The two nations had already established to continue the joint occupation of the Oregeon Terrritotry from 1818.
- 1846 they agreed to extende the mainland boundary westward. Rocky Mountains -Puget Sound.(Current boundary between the United States and Canada).
1836
1836
- Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón also know as Santa Anna
- February 23, 1836, Santa Anna and his troops began attacking the rebels holed up in the Alamo.
- This attack lasted 13 days and ended on March 6,1836 when Mexican troops scaled the Alamo's walls.
- 6 weeks later, 900 soldiers led by Sam Houston suprised a group of Mexicans near the San Jacinto River.
- The Texans killed 630 of Santa Anna's soldiers in 18 minutes and also capured Santa Anna himself.
- Santa Anna was set free only after he was forced to sign the Treaty of Velasco which granted independence to Texas.
- September 1836 Houston was elected president of the new Republic of Texas.
1836
- Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón also know as Santa Anna
- Samuel Houston was an American general
1836-1848
1836-1848
- The winner of the 1844 U.S. presidential election, slaveholder James K. Polk firmly favored the annextion of Texas.
- December 29, 1845, Texas enterded the Union.
- March 1845 the Mexican goverment recalled its ambassador from Washington.
- President Polk belived that war with Mexico would bring New Mexico and California into the Union.
- Texas argued that its southern border extended to Rio Grande while Mexico maintained that the border stopped at the Nueces River, 100-150 miles northeast of the Rio Grande.
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