Transcript Chapter 13 Manifest Destiny

This chapter is about
1) Mountain Men
2) Trails West
3) The Texas Revolution
4) The War with Mexico
5) The California Gold Rush
Mountain Men
Mountain Men
like Jedediah
Smith will
explore lands in
the west,
including
present day
Utah.
Mountain Men will open the
west for future pioneers
There will be fighting over
the western lands.
Mountain Men and Indians would meet
at a rendezvous to trade for goods.
What items would you
need to be a successful
mountain man?
Trails to the West
The Santa Fe Trail went from
Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Oregon Trail went from
Independence, Missouri, to the
Oregon Territory.
The Mormon Trail went from
Missouri to the Utah Territory.
The Texas
Revolution
Texas was controlled by Spain, who
still owned current day Mexico.
The Spanish wanted
people to settle Texas so
when Moses Austin asked
for permission to start a
colony in Texas, Spain
agreed.
Mexico gained their
independence from Spain in
1821.
More Americans would move into Texas
causing tensions to increase between
the Mexican Government and Texans.
With the talk of a rebellion Santa
Anna sent more Mexican troops to
Texas
The
Americans
declared that
Texas was a
free and
independent
republic.
At the Battle of the Alamo, 178 of the
183 Americans were killed by Santa
Anna’s army of 1,800 men.
The other five were executed.
Sam Houston and his men
advanced upon the Mexican
Army at San Jacinto
screaming “Remember the
Alamo” killing half of Santa
Anna’s army, forcing them to
surrender.
Texas was now an
independent
nation.
The War with
Mexico
Manifest Destiny suggest
that expansion was not only
good but bound to happen,
even if it meant pushing
Mexicans and Native
Americans out of the way.
Mexico still claimed that Texas
belonged to them and they would
fight to keep it.
The United States invades Mexico
to bring the war to an end.
In 1848, the war ended with the
signing of the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexico
recognized that Texas was part
of the United States, and the
Rio Grande was the border
between the nations.
Mexico also ceded, or
gave up, a vast region
known as the Mexican
Cession, but the United
States agreed to pay $15
million for the land.
The United States now extended
from “Sea to Shining Sea”
The California
Gold Rush
Gold was discovered in
California in 1848.
In 1849 thousands of gold seekers
will move to California.