Transcript Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny
Land fever leads to pronounced changes
to the United States.
Westward Expansion
 Manifest Destiny-1845, John L. Sullivan.
 Causes?
National Pride
 Economic Gain
 Expansion of Rail
 Expansion of slavery
“The sun of civilization must shine across the
sea: socially and commercially” T.H. Benton

Oregon Country
 Lure? “quotes”
 Competing claims
 Women and hardship?
 “mountain men”
Maps
The Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail: OE!
Native Americans
 Plains Native Americans—unique and
different to the Eastern Woodlands
 Horse
 Buffalo
 Native American Wars and competing land
claims.
 “Fort policy”
 “concentration policy”
 Fort Laramie Conference: creation of a
“corridor”
Fort Laramie
 Chief Red Cloud and General William
Tecumseh Sherman sign the Fort Laramie
Treaty, which brings an end to war along the
Bozeman Trail. Under terms of the treaty, the
United States agrees to abandon its forts
along the Bozeman Trail and grant enormous
parts of the Wyoming, Montana and Dakota
Territories, including the Black Hills area, to
the Lakota people as their exclusive territory.
Mormon Exodus
 Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
 Appeal of Mormonism in the Antebellum
 “amidst social turmoil and rampant materialism”
 Drove from New York to Ohio to Missouri to Nauvoo
Illinios…then to Salt Lake City.
 “Garden in the Desert”
 Brigham Young and the Mormon Wars