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Chapter 9: Manifest Destiny

Chapter 9: Manifest Destiny. The Market Revolution. Market Revolution. Shift from self-sufficiency to specialization People buying and selling goods for profit rather than making them for own use Effect/Significance: Capitalism

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Chapter 9: Manifest Destiny

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  1. Chapter 9: Manifest Destiny

  2. The Market Revolution

  3. Market Revolution • Shift from self-sufficiency to specialization • People buying and selling goods for profit rather than making them for own use • Effect/Significance: Capitalism • Economic system in which private citizens & businesses control the means of production

  4. Causes of Capitalism and the Market Revolution • American System • Development of Transportation systems since 1800s • Protective Tariff aiding American businesses • Industrial Revolution • Development of Factories  make more goods faster • Growth of Railroads & Canals  transport more goods faster • Entrepreneurs • Increase in wealthy Americans willing to invest • New Inventions • Morse Code, Mechanical Reaper, Sewing Machine, vulcanized rubber,

  5. Trade & Migration: 1850

  6. Effects of Capitalism • Created New Markets • Midwest, Europe • The possibility of Asia • Improved Communication • Railroads, Telegraph • Northeast center of America commerce

  7. Complete the Chart Below

  8. Manifest Destiny

  9. Obvious Destiny Expansion to Pacific Ocean into Mexican Territory “Manifest Destiny”

  10. Causes • Religious Persecution • Panic of 1837 • Many Americans had lost money from economic crisis • Abundance of Land • Cheap & Fertile • New markets for farming, ranching, mining • New Markets • Trade with China & Japan • Set up harbors in the Pacific

  11. Effects • Black Hawk War • Native American Rebellion against US in Illinois & Wisconsin • Creation of “Middle Ground” • Neither Native Americans nor Americans dominated

  12. Treaty of Fort Laramie, 1851 • Relieved tensions between settlers and Native Americans • Gave various Native American nations control of Central Plains • N.A. would not attack settlers & allowed construction of forts/roads • US sets up boundaries and set up an annual payment plan

  13. Effects of Manifest Destiny • “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” • Democrat James’ K Polk 1844 platform • Rallying cry for Americans to “annex” Oregon territory

  14. Effects of Manifest Destiny Development of Oregon Trail Development of Santa Fe Trail

  15. Texas Independence • Mexico gains independence (1821) • Improve economy by easing trade restrictions • Invite Americans • Offer land grants • Obey Mexican Law & Observe Roman Catholicism • Stephen F. Austin – empresario

  16. Texas fights for Independence • Causes • Increasing White Population from America (land grants) – “Gone to Texas” • Unstable Politics in Mexico • Austin pushes for self-governance • Santa Anna revokes local powers in Texas

  17. Effects of Texas Fight for Independence • Effects • Remember the Alamo! • Sam Houston @ San Jacinto • Texas Independence- 1836 • Texas Joins Union in 1845

  18. Unit 3 – Day 10 Study for Test Mexican War

  19. Current President • James K. Polk • 1845-1849 • Democrat • North Carolina • “Fifty-Four Forty of Fight!”

  20. Polk Urges War • Causes for War • Mexican Gov’t instability • Polk’s goal for Manifest Destiny • Slidell’s Rejection

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