MANIFEST DESTINY AND THE
CONQUEST OF THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST
*Bent's Fort
*Manifest Destiny(1845)
Texas
- cotton
- the Alamo(San Antonio)
- Republic of Texas(1836-1845)
- John Tyler(1841-45)
*James Knox Polk(1845-49)
- Tennessee Democrat
- strong Jackson supporter and champion of westward expansion
-Mexican War(1846-48)
- relevant boundaries
- Rio Nueces/Nueces River
- Rio Grande
- opposition to the war on moral and sectional grounds
- *David Wilmot
- *Henry Thoreau
- "Resistance
to Civil Government"
- later more widely known as Civil Disobedience
- influence on
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Martin Luther King,
Jr.
- support for the conquest of all of Mexico
- *Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
*Oregon Country(1846)
- *"54 40' or fight"
- Great Britain
- 49th parallel
ROUTES TO THE PACIFIC COAST
- clipper ships
- Boston to San Francisco in less than 100 days
- overland trails
- *Mormon migration
- Salt Lake City,
Utah(1847)
- *Donner party(1846-47)