MANIFEST DESTINY NOTES
United States 1783
 Gained after the United States winning the
Revolutionary War with Great Britain.
 By Treaty of Paris 1783
Louisiana Purchase
 President Thomas Jefferson authorized
diplomats to purchase the port of New
Orleans from France for western farmers
 Napoleon Bonaparte of France offered to
sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the U.S.
for $15 million in 1803
 The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of
the United States
Florida
 Andrew Jackson invaded Florida in 1818 to
stop Indian attacks on the Georgia border.
 John Quincy Adams, President Monroe’s
Secretary of State, worked out a treaty with
Spain called the Adams-Onis Treaty.
 Spain gave Florida to the United States in
exchange for a payment of $5 million.
Oregon Territory
 This area includes the present-day states of
Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and parts
of Wyoming, Montana, and Canada.
 In 1818, the United States and Britain
agreed to occupy Oregon jointly.
 The first Americans to settle in the area were
trappers known as “mountain men.”
 The first white American families to settle
there were missionaries. The first and most
well-known were the Whitmans.
 In 1843, Americans began to travel in
covered wagons on the “Oregon Trail.”
 The Oregon Territory became part of the
United States in 1846 after an agreement
was reached with Britain known as
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”.
Texas
 Texas won its independence from Mexico in
1836 and became the Republic of Texas.
 Texas tried to join the United States in the
1830s but President Andrew Jackson refused
to annex Texas out of concern that it would
cause a war with Mexico and the northerners
disagreement with the south’s use of
slavery.
 President Polk, who was interested in
expanding the United States, agreed to
annex the Republic of Texas in 1845.
 Famous battles-Alamo, Goliad, San Jacinto
Mexican Cession
 After the United States annexed Texas, war
broke out with Mexico. President Polk
declared that Mexico has “shed American
blood upon the American soil.”
 In 1848, Mexico signed the Treaty of
Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
 Mexico ceded (gave) all of California and
New Mexico to the United States.
 The United States gave Mexico $15 million
for the Mexican Cession.
 Thousands of Americans went to California
in the “gold rush” of 1849.
 Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, settled in Salt
Lake City, Utah, in the 18400s; their route
became known as the “Mormon Trail.”
Gadsden Purchase
 The United States wanted a strip of land
across southern New Mexico and Arizona
for a transcontinental railroad.
 In 1853, Mexico sold the land, called the
Gadsden Purchase, to the United States for
$10 million.