Transcript Chapter 11 Manifest Destiny and Conquest: Thomas

CHAPTER 11
MANIFEST DESTINY AND
CONQUEST: THOMAS LARKIN
AND JUAN BAUTISTA ALVARADO
BY GISELE TAY, KAYLYN PULASKI, JASMINE GRIGSBY, EMILY THOMPSON, AND
DEVIN NGUYEN
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA
• SPANISH SETTLERS
CREATED
ALTA CALIFORNIA (MOSTLY
PRIESTS AND SOLDIERS)
• FRANCISCAN FRIAR JUNIPERO SERRA AND MILITARY LEADER GASPAR DE PORTOLA
ESTABLISHED A MISSION AND A PRESIDIO (FORT) IN MONTEREY BAY
• MONTEREY QUICKLY BECAME THE DESIGNATED CAPITAL
• MONTEREY REGION EXPANDED AS MORE SETTLERS CAME
• SOCIETY CAME TO VALUE ANCESTRY ABOVE ACHIEVEMENT
• AS TIME WENT
BY, MANY
CALIFORNIOS GREW TIRED OF MEXICO'S INTERFERENCE
• THE NAME CALIFORNIOS CAME FROM THIS, ESTABLISHING A SENSE OF IDENTITY FOR ALTA
CALIFORNIA SEPARATE FROM MEXICO
• CALIFORNIOS DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM MEXICO
BACKGROUND OF JUAN BAUTISTA ALVARADO
• BORN IN MONTEREY (1809), TRUE CALIFORNIO
• GOOD EDUCATION BECAUSE OF ANCESTRY STATUS FROM MATERNAL ANCESTRY
• REPUBLICAN BELIEFS (THE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO RULE THEMSELVES), WANTED
CENTRALIZATION
• ALVARADO WANTED CALIFORNIA TO BE A STATE WITHIN MEXICO
• LOYALTY TO CALIFORNIA EXCEEDED HIS LOYALTY TO MEXICO
• GOVERNMENT CAREER
• NAMED SECRETARY OF THE TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE AT 18-YEARS-OLD
• TERRITORIAL TREASURER
•
INSPECTOR AT THE CUSTOMHOUSE
•
A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE LEGISLATURE
• PRESIDENT OF THE LEGISLATURE (1836)
• GOVERNOR OF MEXICAN CALIFORNIA
•
SECURED POSITION AFTER CALIFORNIA DECLARED INDEPENDENCE FROM MEXICO, WHICH WAS ULTIMATELY
UNSUCCESSFUL
BACKGROUND ON THOMAS LARKIN
• BORN IN 1802 IN CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS
•
ADOPTED
CALIFORNIA AS HIS HOME
• HIS FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS SIX; HIS MOTHER MARRIED AN ACQUISITIVE BANKER
•
HAD AN EARLY INTEREST IN MAKING MONEY
• BUSINESS CAREER
• OWNED A PLANTATION WITH 6 SLAVES
• OPENED STORES IN NORTH CAROLINA
• LARKIN'S BUSINESS CAREER STARTED TO GO DOWNHILL BECAUSE HE WAS NOT SATISFIED WITH HIS WEALTH
•
LOST ALL OF HIS MONEY WHEN HE INVESTED IN A SAWMILL
• HE STARTED TRADING FOR HIMSELF AND HE BEGAN TO RISE AGAIN DUE TO CALIFORNIA'S WEALTH GOING
TO RANCHERS
• LARKIN HAD HOPES OF CALIFORNIA BEING SECURED BY THE UNITED STATES
• LARKIN SPENT YEARS TRYING TO FULFILL THE MANIFEST DESTINY AND WAS LATER APPOINTED AS THE
FIRST AMERICAN CONSUL TO MEXICAN CALIFORNIA BECAUSE HE HEADED A GROUP IN MONTEREY
TO LOBBY THE UNITED STATES TO ESTABLISH A CONSULATE THERE
MANIFEST DESTINY
• THE TERM WAS COINED IN THE 1840S
• MANY AMERICANS BELIEVED THAT EXTENDING THE NATION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
REPRESENTED THE FULFILLMENT OF ITS GOD-GIVEN DESTINY
• THEY BELIEVED THEY WERE DESTINED TO EXPAND FROM COAST TO COAST
• MANIFEST DESTINY STIRRED UP A LOT OF POLITICAL AND RACIAL ISSUES
• AMERICANS FELT THAT BECAUSE
OF
MANIFEST DESTINY, THEY WERE
WHEREVER THEY WANTED
• THIS CAUSED MANY TENSIONS TO RISE
ENTITLED TO EXPAND
DESIRE FOR CALIFORNIA
• AMERICA WANTED
TO EXPAND, FOLLOWING
ECONOMIC BENEFITS THEY WERE SURE
CALIFORNIA HAD TO OFFER
• ALVARADO AND MANY CALIFORNIOS WERE
AND WANTED TO BE INDEPENDENT
MANIFEST DESTINY, AND THEY WANTED
NOT APPRECIATIVE OF
AMERICA'S INTERFERENCE
THE FATE OF CALIFORNIA
• FIGHTING OCCURS BETWEEN AMERICANS AND CALIFORNIOS
• LARKIN BEGINS BUYING UP LAND IN CALIFORNIA FOR HIMSELF AND OTHER AMERICANS
• MEXICO EVENTUALLY
CEDES
CALIFORNIA TO THE UNITED STATES
• FORMER MEXICAN CITIZENS NOW UNDER AMERICAN RULE WERE GUARANTEED THE PROTECTION OF
LIBERTY AND PROPERTY
• MANY CALIFORIOS LOST THEIR LAND, INFLUENCE, AND POSITION
• THERE WAS A LACK OF DISTINCTION BETWEEN CALIFORNIOS OF SPANISH DECENT AND MEXICANS
OF MIXED INDIAN AND SPANISH BLOOD WHO FACED FREQUENT VIOLENCE AND WIDESPREAD
DISCRIMINATION
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