Manifest Destiny
What was it?
Bellwork
• Turn in Slavery Packet if you did not yesterday
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• Write the following for your Bellwork:
▫ Take out your IANB and be ready to start notes on
Manifest Destiny.
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Chapter 11 Table of Contents
2. Vocab Illustrations
3. Chapter 11 Vocab
4. Chapter 10 test
5. Chapter 10 Test Corrections
6. Industrial Rev Cause & Effects
7. Chapter 11 Sect. 1 Notes
8. Northern Industry Growth Chart 9. Chapter 11 Sect. 2 Notes
10. Cotton Gin Visual
11. Chapter 11 Sect. 3 Notes
12.Missouri Compromise Comic
13. Chapter 11 Sect. 4 Notes
14. Industrial Revolution Dates
15. Chapter 11 Overview
16. UPA Planning
. 17. Manifest Destiny Notes
Manifest Destiny
• The belief that the United States has a
right to expand its territory to the Pacific
Ocean.
▫ John O’Sullivan stated it was America’s “manifest
destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of
the continent which Providence has given us.”
Why did it happen?
• The Louisiana Purchase – after 1/3 of the
continent is gained as a result of Jefferson’s
purchase, the feeling gradually intensified.
• More land = more power
• Land to be had + political and religious beliefs of
the time = Manifest Destiny became the rallying
cry of many Americans.
▫ This was due, in large part, to the sense of
nationalism after the War of 1812.
• Pictures were painted to encourage people to fulfill their Manifest Destiny. The picture
below (Library of Congress LC-USZC4-668) shows 'America' floating over the Plains. She
brings light to the dark and desolate landscape and shows the way for farmers, travellers,
the stage-coach, the telegraph and the railway. Ahead of her wild animals, buffalo and
Indians (the darkness) turn and run leaving the way clear for settlement.
Results
• People start heading west
▫ Searching for riches and a new start
• Starts to expand to dealings with foreign nations
▫ Mexican-American War
▫ Spanish-American War
Manifest Destiny
Beginning
• 1839 - John L. O’Sullivan coins the phrase
Manifest Destiny in an article published in The
United States Democratic Review. His words
describe a period of conquest and conflict.
Dawson’s Massacre
• 1842 Responding to years of harassment along
the Texas border, Mexican troops strike San
Antonio in what became known as Dawson’s
Massacre.
Oregon Trail
• 1843 The Oregon Trail is formed and settlers
stream westward.
Oregon Territory
• 1846 Britain and the United States set the
northern boundary of the Oregon Territory at
the 49th parallel.
U.S. Mexican War
• 1846 - The United States enters into war with
Mexico. Two years later when the war ends, the
United States gains most of Mexican lands north
of the Rio Grande.
Gold Rush
• 1848 – Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill in
California.
• 1849 - Over 80,000 fortune-seekers
had made their way to California.
Gadsden Purchase
• 1854- An agreement between the United States
and Mexico in which the United States agreed to
pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile
portion of Mexico that later became part of
Arizona and New Mexico. Gadsden’s Purchase
provided the land necessary for a southern
transcontinental railroad and attempted to
resolve conflicts that lingered after the MexicanAmerican War.
UPA Planning
• Decide which topic you will address in your
UPA. Now is the time to start planning what you
will include in your UPA. (Dates, descriptions,
etc.)