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What Was the Mexican-American War? | History

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The California Gold Rush cartoon 1849 (The Wild West)

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Forty-niners rushed to California with visions of gilded promise, but they discovered a harsh reality. Life in the gold fields exposed the miner to loneliness and homesickness, isolation and physical danger, bad food and illness, and even death

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The Rush to find gold that brought thousands of new residents to California and produced millions of dollars in the new wealth for the region and the United States.

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The treaty, signed in 1848, ended the U.S war with Mexico and granted the unites states control of all of Texas, New Mexico, and California.

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The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories.

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A major economic downturn brought on by temporary excesses in international trade and the inability of the unites states to control the currency or make credit available after the closing of the Second Bank of the United States.

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The Whig also favored a federal government while Democrats favored state government. Slavery is what ultimately split up the Whig party because most northern Whigs believed in abolishing slavery, while most southern Whigs thought the opposite. This is when the Republican party was formed.

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President Polk:  19th-century American lawyer and soldier. At the age of 26, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Texas Army. He died at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.
Annexation of Texas: 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, 1836.

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The Alamo, Davie Crocket, William Travis

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The Alamo, Davie Crocket, William Travis

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The Alamo: A Franciscan mission at San Antonio, Texas that was the sight in 1836 of a siege and mascara of Texans and Mexican troops.
Davie Crocket: 9th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution.
William Travis:  19th-century American lawyer and soldier. At the age of 26, he was a lieutenant colonel in the Texas Army. He died at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.

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Moses Austin was a American business man and pioneer in the led industry. Stephen Austin was the father of Texas

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People kept breaking the law and brought slaves to Texas. Texas eventually wanted to branch off and fight for there Independence in 1836

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The doctrine, first expressed in 1845,that the expansion of white and inevitable and ordained by god and was a means to spread Protestant, Christianity, and Jackson democracy to more people

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The Mormon Trek:  Joseph Smith, beliefs of Mormons

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The Mormon Trek:  Joseph Smith, beliefs of Mormons

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an interesting group which began in upstate New York were the founder claimed he found a third book of the bible. Members adopted polygamy and were pushed west through persecution and ended up in Salt Lake City Utah.

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a social reform effort started by Horace Mar in the mid 1800's , that promoted the idea of having all children educated regardless of there social class or back ground .

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One of the strongest reform movements, form the second great awakening.

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Communities founded by reformers transcendentalists to help realize there spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition modern industrial society

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was a philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and the 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with good and nature, and there is no need for organized churches, it Incorporated the idea that the mind goes beyond matter , institution is value, that each soul is apart of the great spirit. and each person is apart of a reality were only the visible is truly real. Promoted Individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions.

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Was led by Dorothea Dix; one of the many woman reformers of the second Great Awakening. She wanted to separate ill people from prisoners and reform the way the way they were treated.

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Prison reform was a movement to create more humane conditions and began the use of the word "penitentiary" as in to pay "penance for ones crimes" , also houses of reforms came into use.

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Serman wisely reprinted "within is the universal, natural, national remedy for intemperance". Its banishment ardent spirits from the list of lawful objects of commence, lots of them in place to stop drinking.

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New denominations created -- Methodists and Baptists

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New denominations created -- Methodists and Baptists

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New Christianity branches created. such as Baptist, Orthodox, Methodist and etc.

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The series of religious rivals in the first half of the 1800s characterized by great emotionalism in large public meetings