Manifest Destiny
Timeline
1803-1853
Cause & Effect
1803 Louisiana
Purchase – America’s
fierce determination
to keep the port of
New Orleans open
and France’s costly
war against Britain.
Pages 319-320
Purchase has been
made, learning about
the territory became
more important,
Lewis & Clark
Expedition. Growth of
fur trade, accurate
maps (open the west
to settlers), and clash
of cultures.
Cause & Effect
War of 1812 –
Impressments of US
Citizens, interference
w/ American shipping,
and British support of
Native-American
resistance.
Page 333 Increased
American patriotism,
weakened Native
American resistance
(death of Tecumseh),
and US manufacturing
grew. *Era of Good
Feelings started in
1815
Cause & Effect
1820 Missouri
Compromise – Adding
Missouri as a slave
state would upset the
balance of Congress.
Issue over slavery
divided the nation.
Page 358 Agreement
passed between Pro
& Anti Slavery in
Congress, regulation
of slavery in the
western territories.
Kept a balance,
divided the territories
in 36 degree latitude
30’ N = free S= slave
Cause & Effect
1823 Monroe Doctrine
- US felt threatened
by European
colonization in Latin
America. “Leave
America for the
Americans”…
Page 359 Monroe
Doctrine said that
Americas were closed
to further
colonization,
considered dangerous
to our peace and
safety. Helped US
expansion and saw
itself as a world
power.
Cause & Effect
1830 Indian Removal
Act – Pres. Jackson
believed that the
gov’t had the right to
regulate where Native
Am could live,
pressure from
settlers, discovery of
gold in Georgia.
Pages 375-376
Jackson extended the
area of “freedom”,
raised an issue of
America’s mission –
Manifest Destiny….
Set the stage for
“ethnic cleansing”
(Trail of Tears).
Cause & Effect
1844 – Industrial
Revolution (18001844) great economic
changes brought new
machines and
factories, changed US
society, encouraged
the expansion of
slavery.
Pages 341-359 New
inventions improved
transportation and
communication,
improved farming,
cotton gin and boom
caused slavery to
spread. Slavery
created tensions, later
led to the Civil War.
Cause & Effect
Mexican-American
War 1846-1848
More Americans
settled/moved into
Mexican territory,
resented following
Mexican laws,
especially upset with
outlawing slavery.
Fight over Texas!
Pages 406 – 411
Manifest Destiny
became a gov’t policy
under Pres. Polk.
Gained more territory
(Mexican Cession),
rich new culture.
“From Sea to Shining
Sea”, transcontinental
railroad was built.
Cause & Effect
1853 Manifest Destiny
(1810-1853) Trails
West, Texas
Revolution, War with
Mexico, and the CA
Gold Rush… 3 Key
Themes – virtue,
mission, and destiny
led to the westward
expansion!
Page 407 (Ch: 13)
United States
expanded its territory
westward to stretch
from Atlantic to
Pacific Ocean. Note
today 33% of all
Americans live in the
areas/land added &
brought cultural
diversity.
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