Chapter 12 - Manifest Destiny

 

Adams-Onis Treaty

john quincy adams - entered into a treaty with Spain over the border between Oregon and California

Oregon Trail

route from Independence, Missouri to Oregon Country near the Pacific Ocean

Manifest Destiny

Written by James K Polk - supported gaining all of Oregon - Great Britian didn’t want to give up all the land - settle on the boundary at 49 degrees latitude

James K. Polk

democrat party in 1844 election - created the Manifest Destiny

Henry Clay

Whing Party in 1844

Moses Austin

Spain offered him a tract of land to establish a colony

Stephen F. Austin

Moses Austin Son - was transferred land after his son died

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

new president of Mexico - declares himself dictator and a bollshes Mexicos constitution - sent an army to punish the rebels - defeated the Texans - killed all the men in Alamo- captured and forced to sign a treaty granting texas independence

Gonzales

On October 1835 the Mexican army tried to seize a canhoun held by the Texans here - 1st battle of Texas Independence

Alamo

where Santa Anna killed all men

Davy Crockett

one of the co-leaders for Texas - he was from Kentucky

Jim Bowie

another co - leader for Texas - he was an inventor of the Bowie Knife

William B Travis

Commander for Texas - he was a 26 year old leader

Washington - on - the - Brazos

where the meeting took place that declared Texas Indepdence on March 2 1836

Republic of Texas

The commander in cheif was Sam Huston -

Sam Huston

commander in chief - orders Texas troops to abandon their fort at Goliad

Goliad

where texas troops had their camp

Battle of San Jacinto

Sam Huston with 900 troops surprise Santa Annas army of 1300 - Santa Anna is captured and forced to sign a treaty granting Texas Independence

Andrew Jackson

President of US - he doesnt want to allow Texas to become a state - balance of slave US - free states

Martin Van Buren

President after Andrew Jackson - he says no on Texas statehood - issue of slavery or possible war with Mexico

John Tyler

President after Martin Van Buren - 1841 - favors annexation - The senate did not approve annexation over the issue of slavery

Lone Star Republic

Texas would remain an independent country - winning independence from Mexico

William Becknell

1821 - he traveled to Santa Fe on the Santa Fe trail ( Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe

Santa Fe Trail

Independence, Missouri → Santa Fe

John C Fremont

1840 He visited California - an army officer - wrote of the regions mild climate and vast natural resources

James. K Polk

1845 - He saw New Mexico and California being a part of the US - He offers to buy New Mexico but Mexico refused to sell the land - He plotted to gain them through war - he needed to go to war with Mexico and make Mexico look like Mexico started it

Texas-Mexico Border

The US insisted that the Rio Grande formed the border - Mexico claimed that the border lay along the Nuces River

Rio Grande River

claimed by US - what the US wanted the Texas Mexico border to be formed off

Nueces River

Claimed by Mexico - what the Mexicans wanted the Mexico - Texas border to be passed off

John Slidell

Was sent by Polk to Mexico to propose a deal - He was authorized to offer 30 million for California and New Mexico in return for Mexico’s acceptance of the Rio Grande as the Texas Boundary

General Zachary Taylor

was ordered by Polk to march his soldiers across the disputed borderland

General Stephen Watts Kearny

led 1,500 troops along Santa Fe trail from Fort Leavenworth to New Mexico - captured Santa Fe without firing a shot on August 18,1846 - led his army across the dessert toward California

California Gold Rush

* 1849 - 1849
* Gold is discovered in California
* the people that rushed to get to California in search of gold
* Gold found at Sutlers Mill
* 1849 - Forty Niners

Levi Strauss

* immigrant
* sold the miners sturdy pants made of denim
* His “Levi’s” made him rich

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Joseph Smith

* New Englander living in western New York
* He claimed that he had received a vision from God that led him to build a New Christian church
* He began preaching Mormon ideas in 1830
* He sets up churches in New York
* Persecuted by an angry mob

Mormon Church

* members of the Church of Jesus Christ
* settled in Utah to fulfil their visons of a Godly life
* created by Joseph Smith

Brigham Young

* took over as head of the Mormons after Joseph smiths death
* decided that the Mormons should move west to escape persecutions and find religious freedom
* moved to the Great Salt Lake

Nauvoo

what the town Commerce, Illinois was renamed to - persecuted

Deseret

Where the mormons established a nation

Millard Fillmore

appoints Bisham Yung as governor of the Utah Territory