Kayla Eilertson, Kodi Parkhurst, Tristen Hughes, Kylie Smith

Manifest Destiny

• The commonly accepted idea that the U.S. would expand westward, all the way to the Pacific Ocean

Manifest Destiny:

• New Life

• Religious Freedom

• Wealth

Why Expand?

• 1803

• Bought from France

• For 15million dollars

• Doubled the size of the US

• Went from Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains

• Explorers

• Louis and Clark

Louisiana Purchase

• Act that said forced all Native Americans to leave their homelands and move to ‘Indian Territory’

• Trail of Tears

• Issued by Andrew Jackson

• Georgia vs. Cherokee

• Ruled that Cherokee could stay

• Jackson ignored ruling, and forced them out anyways

Indian Removal Act

• President James K. Polk forced conflict with Mexico

• War ended with Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Gave us modern day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico

Mexican/American War

• Gold first found by John Sutter • at Sutter’s Mill in the Sacramento Valley in

California • 1848 • Started ‘Gold Rush’

• Created a series of mining camps • Irish and Chinese laborers

The Gold Rush

• Religion created by Joseph Smith

• Moved westward to avoid persecution

• Lead by Brigham Young

• Settled in current day Utah

Mormons

http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=29916&CategoryID=3738

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www.history.com

www.ilovehistory.utah.gov

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