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1 CHAPTER 13. LOOKING WESTWARD

2 Objectives: o We will study the concept of Manifest Destiny and its influence on the nation through the 1840s and beyond. o We will study the origin of the Republic of Texas and the controversy concerning its annexation by the United States. o We will study the reasons why the United States declared war on Mexico, and how the Mexican War was fought to a successful conclusion.

3 (Deu 19:14) Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

4 The U.S. acquired more than a million square miles of new territory in the 1840s. The greatest wave of expansion since the Louisiana Purchase nearly forty years before. By the end of the decade, the nation possessed all the territory of the present day U.S. except Alaska, Hawaii, and relatively small areas acquired later.

5 Manifest Destiny: Many factors accounted for the new wave of expansion. Most important of which were the hopes and ambitions of the many thousands of White Americans who moved into or invested in these new territories. Advocates of expansion justified their goals with a carefully articulated set of ideas an ideology known as manifest destiny.

6 Manifest Destiny: Reflected both the burgeoning pride that characterized American nationalism in the mid-nineteenth century and the idealistic vision of the social perfection that fueled so much of the reform energy of the time. It rested in the idea that America was destined by God and by history to expand its boundaries over a vast area, an area included but was not necessarily restricted to the continent of North America.

7 Manifest Destiny: Advocates insisted that it was a benevolent aim to expand American liberty to new realms. John L. O Sullivan the influential Democratic editor gave the movement its name. Manifest Destiny represented pride in the nation s political system but also racial justification for expansion. That White people of Northern European origins were superior as the American race.

8 Manifest Destiny: Nonwhite peoples of the territories could not be absorbed into the republican system. The Indians and Mexicans and others were racially unfit to be American. Westward expansion was a movement to spread both a political system and a racially defined society. O Sullivan called racial purity the key to the triumph of the nation.

9 Manifest Destiny: Advocates of Manifest Destiny disagreed how far and by what means the nation should expand. Some had relatively limited territorial goals. Others envisioned a vast new empire of liberty that would include Canada, Mexico, Caribbean and Pacific Islands, and ultimately a few dreamed such of the rest of the world.

10 Manifest Destiny: Some believed American should force to achieve its expansionist goals, while others felt that the nation should expand peacefully or not at all. Not everyone embraced the idea of manifest destiny. Henry Clay and other prominent politicians feared, correctly as it turned out, that territorial expansion would reopen the painful controversy over slavery and threaten the stability of the Union.

11 Americans in Texas: The U.S. once claimed Texas. It was part of Mexico as part of the Louisiana Purchase, but it renounced the claim in Twice thereafter the U.S. had offered to buy Texas, but Mexico refused. By the 1820s, the Mexican government launched an ill-advised experiment, it encouraged American immigration into Texas.

12 Americans in Texas: Mexico hoped to strengthen the economy of the territory and increase their own tax revenues. They also liked the idea of Americans sitting between Mexican settlement and the large sometimes militant tribes in the North. Mexico thought that settlers in Texas would be a effective buffer against the U.S. expansion into the region; and be loyal to the Mexican government.

13 Americans in Texas: By 1824, colonization law designed to attract American settlers promised the newcomers cheap land and a four year exemption on taxes. Thousands of Americans attracted by the rich soil in Texas, suitable for growing cotton and the great majority of the immigrants were southerners many of whom brought slaves with them. By 1830 there were about 7,000 Americans living in Texas more than twice the number of Mexicans there.

14 Americans in Texas: The most successful immigrant was Stephen F. Austin from Missouri who established the first legal settlement in Texas in Austin and other intermediaries were successful in recruiting more American immigrants to Texas. They also created centers of power in the region that competed with the Mexican Government. In 1826, one of these American intermediaries led a revolt to establish as an independent nation.

15 Americans in Texas: Mexico quickly crushed the rebellion and four years later passed new laws barring any American immigration into the region. They were too late. Americans kept flowing into the territory in Mexico dropped the futile immigration ban. By 1835 over 30,000 American whites and blacks had settled in Texas.

16 Tensions between The United States and Mexico: Friction between the American settlers and the Mexican government continued to grow. It arose from the continuing ties of the immigrants to the United States and their desire to legalize slavery which Mexico had made illegal in Texas.

17 Tensions between The United States and Mexico: Americans were divided over how to address their unhappiness with Mexican rule. Austin and his followers wanted to reach a peaceful settlement that would give Texas more autonomy within the Mexican republic. Other Americans wanted to fight for independence.

18 Tensions between The United States and Mexico: General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna seized power as a dictator and imposed a new more conservative and autocratic regime on the nation and its territories. A new law increased the powers of the national government over the state governments. Mexico imprisoned Stephen Austin in Mexico City for a time claiming he encouraged revolts.

19 Tensions between The United States and Mexico: Sporadic fighting between Americans and Mexicans in Texas began in 1835 and escalated as the Mexican government sent more troops into the territory. In 1836, American settlers defiantly proclaimed their independence to Mexico. Santa Anna led a large army into Texas. American settlers had difficulty organizing an effective defense and different factions claimed to be the legitimate government of Texas.

20 Tensions between The United States and Mexico: Mexican forces annihilated an American garrison at the Alamo mission in San Antonio after a famous if futile defense of a group of Texas patriots including frontiersmen and former Tennessee congressman Davy Crockett. Another garrison at Goliad suffered the same fate, and Mexico executed most of the force after it surrendered. By March 1836, the rebellion looked like it would collapse.

21 Tensions between The United States and Mexico: But General Sam Houston managed to keep a small force together. And on April 23, 1836, at the Battle of San Jacinto defeated the Mexican Army and took Santa Anna prisoner in what is now Houston. American troops killed many of the Mexican soldiers as revenge. Santa Anna under pressure from his captors signed a treaty giving Texas independence. The Mexican government repudiated the treaty and Mexican troops briefly occupied San Antonio in 1842 but were unable to win Texas back.

22 Tensions between The United States and Mexico: American Texans hoped for annexation by the United States. One of the first acts of the new president of Texas, Sam Houston was to send a delegation to Washington with an offer to join the union. But this was controversial. Many Northerners opposed acquiring a large new slave territory and others opposed increasing Southern votes in Congress and in the electoral college.

23 Tensions between The United States and Mexico: Unfortunately for Texas one of the opponents was President Jackson who feared annexation might cause a dangerous sectional controversy even a war with Mexico. He did not support annexation and even delayed recognizing the new republic until 1837.

24 Tensions between The United States and Mexico: Texas functioned as an independent nation making treaties with several European nations seeking to check U.S. expansion. In 1844, President Tyler persuaded Texas to apply for statehood again and became a central question of the election that year.

25 Oregon: Control of what was known as Oregon country in the Pacific Northwest was another major political issue in the 1840s. Its half-million square miles included the present states of Oregon Washington, and Idaho, parts of Montana and Wyoming, and half of British Columbia. Both Britain and the United States claimed sovereignty in the region.

26 Oregon: The British on the basis of exploration in the 1790s by George Vancouver, a naval officer, the Americans on the basis of simultaneous claims by Robert Gray a fur trader. Unable to resolve their conflicting claims, they agreed in an 1818 treaty to allow citizens of each country equal access to the territory. This arrangement known as joint occupation continued for twenty years.

27 Oregon: Neither British or American settlers established much of a presence in Oregon country. Most settlers were fur traders and the most significant white settlement was a fur trading post established by John Jacob Astor s company at Astoria and other posts built by the British Hudson Bay Company. Christian missionaries began to settle in the region to counter Catholic missionaries from Canada whose presence in Oregon was thought to threaten American hopes for annexation.

28 Oregon: They had little success with the tribes they sought to convert and began encouraging white immigration citing that the Indians have given up their rightful claims to the land because they rejected God. This led to significant number of White Americans to emigrate to Oregon in the early 1840s and out numbered the British settlers there. They also devastated much of the Indian population by bringing disease.

29 Oregon: In 1847, missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whiteman were among 13 whites killed because Indians attributed the outbreak of diseases towards them. But that did not stop the settlers. By the mid-1840s, American settlements had spread up and down the Pacific Coast.

30 Westward Migration: Migrations into Texas and Oregon were part of a larger movement that took hundreds of thousands of white and black Americans into far western regions of the continent. Most came from the Old Northwest and most traveled in family groups until the early 1850s, when the great California gold rush attracted many single men. Most were relatively prosperous young people.

31 Westward Migration: Poor people could not afford the expensive trip and those who wished to migrate usually had to join more established families or groups as laborers. Men as farm or ranch hands, women as domestic servants, teachers, or in some cases prostitutes. Some like the Mormons were on religious missions or were attempting to escape epidemic diseases plaguing many cities in the East. But all were in search for a new life and the vast majority were looking for economic opportunities.

32 Life on the Trail: Most migrants, about 300,000 between 1840 and 1860 traveled west along the great overland trails. They generally gathered in one of several major depots in Iowa and Missouri (Independence, St. Joseph, or Council Bluffs) joined a wagon train led by hired guides and set off with their belongings piled in covered wagons, livestock trailing behind.

33 Life on the Trail: The major route west was 2,000 mile Oregon Trail, which stretched from Independence across the Great Plains. The journey was difficult with the varied climates causing some to succumb to disease and exposure.

34 Life on the Trail: Indian conflicts were rare and Indians generally were helpful as guides and with trade. Men and women sought to keep some semblance of patterns of conventional American society. They divided their tasks along gender lines. The men drove wagons, hunted game, the women, cooked and washing clothes and caring for children.

35 Life on the Trail: Despite the traditional image of westward migrants as rugged individualists, most travelers found the journey a highly collective experience. That was partly because many expeditions consisted of groups of friends, neighbors, or relatives who had decided to pull up stakes and move west together.

36 EXPANSION AND WAR: The growing number of White Americans in the lands west of the Mississippi put great pressure on the government to annex Texas, Oregon, and other territory. The pressure from expansionists helped push the U.S. into war.

37 EXPANSION AND WAR: In preparing for the presidential election in 1844, the two leading candidates, Henry Clay and former president Martin Van Buren both tried to avoid the issue of annexation of Texas. The Whig party was not much supportive of expansion and Clay secured the nomination.

38 EXPANSION AND WAR: But there were a large number of Democrats who supported annexation and the party passed over Van Buren and nominated John K. Polk. Polk a democrat won the election by appealing to both northern and southern expansionists by expressing the democrat platform of annexing Texas and reoccupying Oregon.

39 EXPANSION AND WAR: Polk entered office with a clear set of goals and with plans for attaining them. John Tyler accomplished the first of Polk s goals for him. The outgoing president won congressional approval for the annexation of Texas in February That December, Texas became a state.

40 EXPANSION AND WAR: Polk himself resolved the Oregon question. The British minister in Washington rejected a compromise Polk offered that would establish the U.S.- Canadian border at the 49th parallel. The minister did not even refer the proposal to London. Polk was upset and asserted American claim to all of Oregon.

41 EXPANSION AND WAR: There was loose talk of war on both sides. Talk that the U.S. took in the form of a slogan or fight! A reference to the border America wanted. But neither country wanted war. Finally, the British government accepted Polk s original proposal. On June 15, 1846 the senate approved the treaty and the border is where it is today.

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43 The Southwest and California: One of the reasons the Senate and president agreed so readily to the British offer to settle the Oregon question was that new tensions were emerging in the Southwest. Tensions that ultimately led to a war with Mexico.

44 The Southwest and California: As soon as Texas was admitted to the Union, Mexico dropped diplomatic relations with Washington. Mexican-American relations grew still worse when a dispute developed over the boundary between Texas and Mexico. Like Texas, American settlers were invited by the Mexican government to help develop the territory. Commerce flourished between Santa Fe and Independence, Missouri.

45 The Southwest and California: Texans claimed the Rio Grande as the Western and Southern border which is now much of New Mexico. Polk accepted the Texas claim and in the summer of 1845 he dispatched a small army under General Zachary Taylor to Texas to protect it against a possible Mexican invasion. Americans began to also arrive in California, first as whalers and merchants and later farmers. Some of the new settlers who came to farm the land dreamed of bringing in California into the U.S.

46 The Southwest and California: President Polk soon came to share their dream and committed himself to acquiring both New Mexico and California for the United States. At the same time he dispatched troops to Texas he sent secret instructions to the commander of the Pacific naval squadron to seize the California ports if Mexico declared war. Representatives of the president quietly informed Americans in California that the U.S. would respond sympathetically to a revolt against Mexican authority there.

47 The Mexican War: Having appeared to prepare for war, Polk turned to diplomacy and turned to John Slidell to try to buy off the Mexicans. But the Mexicans rejected Sidell s offer to purchase the disputed territories. Polk then ordered Taylor s army in Texas to move across the Nueces River, to the Rio Grande. For months, the Mexicans refused to fight. But finally, according to some disputed accounts some Mexican troops crossed the Rio Grand and attacked a unit of American soldiers.

48 The Mexican War: Polk now told Congress: war exists by the act of Mexico herself. Congress declared war with few opposing votes. However, the war had many opponents in the U.S. Whigs accused Polk of inciting the war with his actions. Some were concerned that war with Mexico was diverting attention from the Northwest.

49 The Mexican War: Some thought the war was a moral crime. Ulysses Grant an officer in the war thought that it was one of the most unjust ever. Lincoln thought that it gave the president too much power to invade other nations. Henry David Thoreau was so horrified by the war that he refused to pay taxes and spent time in jail.

50 The Mexican War: American forces did well against the Mexicans but victory did not come as quickly as Polk hoped for. Polk ordered Taylor to cross the Rio Grande and seize parts of Northeastern Mexico, beginning in the city of Monterey and then to Mexico City.

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52 The Mexican War: In the mean time Polk ordered other offensives against Mexico and California. In the summer of 1846, a small army under Colonel Stephen W. Kearny captured Santa Fe with no opposition. Then Kearny proceeded to California where he joined up with American settlers, a well armed exploring party led by John C. Fremont, and the U.S. Navy who were already fighting.

53 The Mexican War: The so called Bear Flag Revolution, Kearny brought the disparate American forces together under his command, and by autumn of 1846 he had completed the conquest of California. The U.S. controlled the two territories for which it had gone to war. Mexico still refused to concede defeat.

54 The Mexican War: At that point Polk and General Winfield Scott, the commanding general of the army launched a offensive. First entering the coast of Veracruz via Naval transport and with an army of 14,000. Scott marched to Mexico City keeping Mexican casualties low before seizing the capital.

55 The Mexican War: A new Mexican government took power and announced its willingness to negotiate a peace treaty. Polk sent a special presidential envoy, Nicholas Trist to negotiate a settlement. They reached an agreement called the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which Mexico agreed to cede California and New Mexico to the U.S. and acknowledge the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas.

56 The Mexican War: In return, the U.S. promised to assume any financial claims from its new citizens and against Mexico and to pay the Mexicans $15 million. Trist had obtained most of Polk s original demands but he had not satisfied the new more expansive dreams of acquiring additional territory in Mexico itself.

57 The Mexican War: Polk angrily claimed that Trist had violated his instructions. There was growing debate between expansionists who wanted all of Mexico and antislavery leaders charging that expansionists were conspiring to extend slavery to new realms. The senate approved the treaty and the war was over.

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