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America Achieves Manifest Destiny

America Achieves Manifest Destiny. The Gadsden Purchase, the Wilmot Proviso, and the California Gold Rush. What formally ended the Mexican-American War? Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Mexican Cession) US adds 1.2 million square miles

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America Achieves Manifest Destiny

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  1. America AchievesManifest Destiny The Gadsden Purchase, the Wilmot Proviso, and the California Gold Rush

  2. What formally ended the Mexican-American War? • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • (Mexican Cession) • US adds 1.2 million square miles • Mexico was humiliated by the treaty, bitter toward US for many years

  3. US added more territory with theGadsden Purchase (1853) • Bought from Mexico, consisted of the southern parts of Arizona & New Mexico • Needed to runtranscontinental RR How is this further contributing to Manifest Destiny?

  4. What issue continued to divide the nation? • SLAVERY, and its expansion • Whig Congressman David Wilmot proposes the Wilmot Proviso: • Proposed law would ban slavery in all lands won from Mexico • Law DID NOT pass • Lands won from Mexico increased North/South tensions • Proposed in Congress for 15 more years Why do you think the Wilmot Proviso didn’t pass?

  5. Unresolved Issues & New Opportunities

  6. The Mexican Cession

  7. California Gold Rush, 1849 49er’s

  8. The California Gold Rush • What was it? • Mass migration to California after the discovery of gold in 1848 • Who was involved? • “49ers” = Gold Rush miners • Where did they come from? • Across the US & other Pacific Rim nations (South America, China)

  9. Digging for Gold in California

  10. The California Gold Rush - Effects • Conditions of the camps • Crowded, poor sanitation, violence • Population boom of… • San Francisco • Groups facing discrimination • Indians, Chinese, & Mexicans; taxed, terrorized

  11. Two Views of San Francisco, Early 1850s • By 1860, almost 300,000people had traveled theOregon & CaliforniaTrails to the Pacificcoast.

  12. The California Gold Rush - Effects • ____________ applies for statehood… • California • Increases the debate over… • Slavery • 15 free states, 15 slave • Would later lead to the… • Civil War

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