Period 5 War and Reconstruction Timeline - Manifest Destiny by Lauren Leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup Manifest Destiny en-us 2018-12-10 14:19:56 UTC 2019-01-02 21:21:46 UTC hello@padlet.com 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. lauren_leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312930763 2018-12-10 14:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312930763 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. lauren_leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312935783 2018-12-10 14:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312935783 America wanted California, and wanted to annex Texas. President Polk provoked Mexico to begin the Mexican American War which lasted from 1846-1848. lauren_leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312938914 2018-12-10 14:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312938914 Polk was elected president in 1845, due to his pro-expansion platform, emphasizing the support the American people had for Manifest Destiny. lauren_leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312940747 2018-12-10 14:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312940747 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. lauren_leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312941610 2018-12-10 14:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312941610 Gadsden Purchase in 1853 bought a narrow strip of land in the southwest from Mexico, for the purpose of building railroads west. lauren_leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312943770 2018-12-10 14:46:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312943770 In 1848, Gold was found in California, and thousands of people came west by wagon trains to California and Oregon. lauren_leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312945402 2018-12-10 14:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312945402 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. lauren_leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312946458 2018-12-10 14:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312946458 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. lauren_leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312948069 2018-12-10 14:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/312948069 Works cited: images obtained from the Google image link in Padlet lauren_leidenix https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/314268265 2018-12-13 14:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lauren_leidenix/ltfmebcwfdup/wish/314268265