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Works cited: images obtained from the Google image link in Padlet

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Works cited: images obtained from the Google image link in Padlet

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With all the newly acquired territories requesting statehood, America needed to figure out a way to decide if the new territories would be emitted as slave or free states. This lead to the concept of "Popular Sovereignty", where the people in the state would vote to be slave or free. However, this caused a lot of conflict and led to the Bleeding Kansas conflict.

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With all the newly acquired territories requesting statehood, America needed to figure out a way to decide if the new territories would be emitted as slave or free states. This lead to the concept of "Popular Sovereignty", where the people in the state would vote to be slave or free. However, this caused a lot of conflict and led to the Bleeding Kansas conflict.

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Word of fertile farmland and forests spread east, and eventually the country had "Oregon Fever". In 1846, Americans compromised with Britain at that the border of Oregon would be at the 49th parallel.

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Word of fertile farmland and forests spread east, and eventually the country had "Oregon Fever". In 1846, Americans compromised with Britain at that the border of Oregon would be at the 49th parallel.

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In 1848, Gold was found in California, and thousands of people came west by wagon trains to California and Oregon.

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In 1848, Gold was found in California, and thousands of people came west by wagon trains to California and Oregon.

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Gadsden Purchase in 1853 bought a narrow strip of land in the southwest from Mexico, for the purpose of building railroads west.

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Gadsden Purchase in 1853 bought a narrow strip of land in the southwest from Mexico, for the purpose of building railroads west.

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The Mexican American war came to an end with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, signed February 28, 1848. In this treaty, Mexico gave up all claims to Texas and ceded California and New Mexico to the US. This expanded the US by 500,000 square miles.

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The Mexican American war came to an end with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, signed February 28, 1848. In this treaty, Mexico gave up all claims to Texas and ceded California and New Mexico to the US. This expanded the US by 500,000 square miles.

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Polk was elected president in 1845, due to his pro-expansion platform, emphasizing the support the American people had for Manifest Destiny.

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Polk was elected president in 1845, due to his pro-expansion platform, emphasizing the support the American people had for Manifest Destiny.

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America wanted California, and wanted to annex Texas. President Polk provoked Mexico to begin the Mexican American War which lasted from 1846-1848. 

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America wanted California, and wanted to annex Texas. President Polk provoked Mexico to begin the Mexican American War which lasted from 1846-1848. 

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Soon America had set its sights on Texas. Texas went through a violent rebellion to cede from Mexico, and eventually won it's independence at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836.

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Soon America had set its sights on Texas. Texas went through a violent rebellion to cede from Mexico, and eventually won it's independence at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836.

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The term "Manifest Destiny" and the famous picture symbolizing this ideal was first coined by John O' Sullivan and first appeared in an editorial of the Democratic Review in 1845. This idea that "our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent" soon became ingrained in the American philosophy of the time.

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The term "Manifest Destiny" and the famous picture symbolizing this ideal was first coined by John O' Sullivan and first appeared in an editorial of the Democratic Review in 1845. This idea that "our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent" soon became ingrained in the American philosophy of the time.