Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the belief that Americans, or the “chosen people” by God, were to spread out from the
Atlantic to the Pacific seaboard.
Time of Manifest Destiny
• First settlers of America through the early 1900’s.
Inventor of Phrase Manifest Destiny
• John O’Sullivan wrote an article on the annexation of Texas in 1845 and first coined the term Manifest Destiny.
Native Americans and Manifest Destiny
• From the time that Jamestown was established to 1934 when the Indian Reorganization Act was passed, Native Americans were being forced closer and closer to the Pacific.
• Native Americans were viewed as savage and in need of civilization.
• Americans took their land in promise of helping the Natives become civilized, but the only result was the natives losing their land and much of their culture.
• Americans would stop at nothing to gain all the land that they could.
Louisiana Purchase
• United States bought the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803.
• Doubled the size of the country.
• One step closer to the Pacific Ocean.
John Quincy Adams
• Adams negotiated a deal with Britain to extend the United States-Canadian border to the Rocky Mountains in 1818.
• He also negotiated the joint occupation of the Oregon territory.
• The Transcontinental Treaty of 1819 gave the United States a Spanish Florida.
• Adams also helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to European expansion.
• Past presidents had not known what to do with Texas, should it be annexed?
• James K. Polk was elected in 1844 and saw the victory as a mandate for expansion.
• Congress annexed Texas before Polk entered his presidential office.
• But Polk was not happy that the annexation did not include land down to the Rio Grande River.
Manifest Destiny In The Southwest
Texas-Polk-Mexico Issues
• In June 1845 Polk moved troops to an area of disputed land between Texas and Mexico near the Nueces River.
• Polk hoped to regain this territory from Mexico.• On November 10th, 1845, President Polk sent
John Slidell to Mexico to negotiate a deal for California and the disputed land.
• Slidell was allowed to offer $25 Million, but he never got to negotiate with Mexican officials because the US was hated by many Mexicans.
Manifest Destiny In The Southwest
Nueces River
Area of Disputed Land
Mexican-American War
• Mexico grew angry and attacked the United States troops in the disputed territory in 1846.
• By 1847, many Americans were shouting “All of Mexico.”
• In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed and brought peace to the Mexico and the United States.
•United States gained what they had gone to war over.
Gadsden Purchase
• Gadsden Purchase in 1854.
• The United States wanted this piece of land so that the south could build a transcontinental railroad.
• United States once again took whatever land they wanted to.
Further Manifest Destiny
• In 1898 President McKinley annexed the islands of Hawaii.
• Also in 1898, the United States took control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and Guam in the Spanish- American War.
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