Oregon - Land split in half with Britain in 1846. United States received the Southern portion even though many wanted ALL of it, "54'40 or fight!" , Manifest Destiny - Belief that Americans had the right to expand over the whole continent, Reasons for manifest destiny/westward expansion - rapid population growth, lure of gold, the spread of slavery, adventure, need of farmland, Louisiana Purchase - Bought from France in 1803 and doubled the size of the US , Texas - Annexed by the United States in 1845 adding another slave state, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo - Treaty signed in 1848 ending the Mexican American War, John O' Sullivan - Man who came up with the term manifest destiny, Gadsden Purchase - Land gained to complete the Southern part of the Transcontinental Railroad, Mexican Cession - Land acquired after the Mexican American War gave us California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico,  Florida - Acquired from Spain in 1819 for $5 million through the Adams Onis Treaty. , Mormon Trail - Trail taken to present day Utah from a group wanting religious freedom. , Chinese Immigrants - Worked in the gold mines and the Transcendental Railroad, Irish Immigrants - Left their country due to a potato famine. Worked on factories in the Northeast U.S. , Mormon  - left Missouri and went westward to Utah to escape religious persectution, Treaty of Paris 1783 - Land acquired after the U.S. won independence from Great Britain. It's the land east of the Mississippi River. , James K. Polk - Strong supporter of manifest destiny who was president of the U.S. during the U.S./Mexican War, Hudson River School - A large group of American landscape painters of several generations in the 1800’s.celebration of the natural beauty of the American landscape celebration of the natural beauty of the American landscape, Nativists - These were Americans who promoted U.S. born citizens over immigrants. They believed immigrants were stealing U.S. jobs., Know-Nothing Party - Political party (made up of NATIVISTS) started due to their anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic feelings.,

Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny

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