DAY THREE GROUP C, YO

Bianca, Alexa, Rebecca

• "Manifest Destiny" was a term coined in the 1830s and 1840s that expressed the belief that the United States was pre-ordained to expand from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast, and became a rallying cry for expansionists in the Democratic Party in the 1840s.

THESIS

• Manifest Destiny was in fact an aggressive and imperialist movement because of our inhumane treatment of the Native Americans, our forceful expansion into Mexican territory, and the subsequent war based on faulty evidence.

Native Americans

• John Tyler, president 1841-1845, Whig party

• Second Seminole War; fought Native American in Florida (Lead by Chief Osceola)

• We continued to push them westward• between 1841-1849, approximately

40,000 Indians had resettled in Indian territory

Polk and the War• James K. Polk, 1845-1849, Jacksonian Democracy• Won the ticket by promising to annex Texas• Started the Mexican American War• His address to Congress pleading for war was

filled with falsities; the bloodshed that was caused by Mexican troops was in fact provoked by the American soldiers; they were on Mexican land at the time

• Lincoln’s Spot Resolutions demanded the exact location of where the blood was spilled, but nobody paid it much heed

Mexican American War

• We provoke the Mexicans with the annexation of Texas, which they considered apart of their land (it was)

• Our troops invaded New Mexico and California, and then parts of Northern Mexico

• After capturing Mexico City and ending the war, both sides signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo