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- Louisiana Purchase
- Louisiana Purchase $15,000,000
- Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader and emperor, who sold the land to the U.S. for military reasons
- The signing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, in Paris on April 30, 1803.
- Sold!
- Now I can fund the war against Britain.
- Thomas Jefferson, President of the U.S.
- We should continue westward expansion - manifest destiny...
- "Indian" Removal in the Southeast
- The Trail of Tears: 1831 – 1877, to Oklahoma from the east coast of the U.S.
- 5 "Civilized" Tribes forced to move, including the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole.
- Since Indian tribes appeared to be the main obstacle to westward expansion, President Andrew Jackson issued the Indian Removal Act. Many died due to harsh weather and lack of food.
- American Soldiers tasked with leading the tribes to Oklahoma
- The Texan Victory at San Jacinto gave Texas it's independence from Mexico, and continued the westward expansion of the U.S., after annexing there in 1845.
- Texas
- Sam Houston, leader of 800 Texans at the battle.
- The Battle of San Jacinto: April 21, 1836.
- LIBERTY or DEATH
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, leader of 1,500 Mexicans at the battle, who surrendered.
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- The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S., and because of that implemented a strong impetus towards westward expansion and the seed of manifest destiny in their heads, a notion that would later empower them to expand their land range, leading into many more conflicts along the way as they tried to achieve this goal of reaching “from sea to shining sea.” The purchase gave the United States the imperial rights to the land, which in turn gave the nation the “exclusive authority” to take control of the land from its indigenous inhabitants—whether through treaties or violence, which would be a problem for indigenous peoples living on the east coast of the U.S., including the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw.
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- Mexican War
- Nicholas Trist, the State Department's chief clerk and chosen delegate for the U.S.
- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ended the Mexican-American War. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, relinquished all claims to Texas, and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary of the U.S.
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- Oregon Territory
- The Trail of Tears as an effort of forced ethnic cleansing of the 5 “Civilized” Tribes, killed 2,500 - 6,000 Native Indians as the migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion only for the survivors to live in poor conditions due to the unfamiliarity of the land. The Indian Removal Act itself left 25 million acres of fertile land for the United States, which led to more tensions between enslaved plantation workers and expanded the growth a slavery in the south as well as westward through Indigenous people who owned enslaved people (as a result of being “civilized”) as they moved to the other side of the Mississippi River.
- Manifest destiny completed.
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- American Indians and "Westward Expansion"
- Wounded Knee Massacre: December 29, 1890 - Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
- The victory at San Jacinto gave Texas it’s independence from Mexico and opened the door for the continued westward expansion of the United States, as they not soon after annexed to the U.S., which would later on lead to the Mexican-American war. The Battle of San Jacinto meant a disheartening blow to the Mexican government, which would only heighten when Texas annexes to the U.S., which would lead to later conflict as Mexico saw the win at San Jacinto as a minor and unimportant event, and that Texas still belonged to them.
- James W. Forsyth, general of the U.S. 7th Cavalry
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- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848 in Guadalupe Hidalgo
- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought an official end to the Mexican war, and from the viewpoint of the U.S., was just a step closer to fulfilling Manifest Destiny as Texas officially becomes a part of the U.S. plus the land they got from the Mexican Cession, meaning more money and power for them. In spite of the assurances given to Mexico by the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ensuing legislation deprived California Indians of the rights to their land: many lost their homes, and were persecuted and hunted by non-Indians.
- Luis Cuevas, Bernardo Couto and Miguel Atristain, Mexican Representatives
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- With the Oregon Treaty, border disputes between Britain and the U.S. were settled by extending the border along the 49th parallel to the Pacific Ocean, and allowed the U.S. to complete their Manifest Destiny with the Oregon Country, giving them both profit and pride motivation. The Oregon Country housed many resources, but along with them Indigenous people who were living there, who now had to be extra cautious considering white settlers were now coming to their land to harvest these resources, leading to more conflict between Native Indians and the U.S. Government.
- Oregon Treaty was signed between the US and Britain to settle the boundary dispute. The British gained the land north of the 49th parallel, including the Vancouver Island and the United States received the territory south of the parallel: Oregon Country.
- Secretary of State, James Buchanan
- Sir Richard Pakenham, British minister to the United States
- The Oregon Treaty: June 15, 1846 - Washington D.C.
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- At the Wounded Knee Massacre, the U.S. 7th Cavalry opened fire and killed 150-300 Lakota Plains Indians. The massacre was the climax of Plains Indian resistance to the U.S. Army.
- At the Wounded Knee Massacre, hundreds of Sioux women, men, and children were slaughter by the US Army 7th cavalry, and marked the definitive end of the Ghost Dance movement, which was the last major Plains Indian resistance to the encroachments of white settlers. The U.S. Army 7th cavalry after killing hundreds of Plains Indians in this final attempt at resistance, were awarded with medals of honor.
- The Sioux Plains American Indians
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