Westward Movement

1. Chapter 9

2. Manifest Destiny
• The belief that it is US destiny to expand
ocean to ocean

3. • To protect border from thieves and
Natives- Mexico opened to American
farmers
Mexico gained
Independence
from Spain

4. Stephen Austin
• Establish a colony
in Texas
• Offered cheap “land
grants
– Settlers must obey
Mexican law
– Settlers brought
their slaves

5. • New Mexican president
– Slavery was abolished
Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana

6. William Travis
The battle of The Alamo
Jim Bowie Davie Crockett

9. Remember
the Alamo

11. Texas Independence
 Led by Sam Houston
Captured Santa Ana
Republic of Texas was
created
Boundary was Rio Grande

13. James K.
Polk- 11th
president

14. WAR with Mexico

15. Zachary
Taylor

16. Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo- Rio Grande
as boundary
$15 million for CA,
NM, UT, AZ
US annexed Texas
Gadsen Purchase- for
$10 million- plan for a
southern
transcontinental railroad
Oregon
Territory-
negotiated land
with Britain

17. Gold Rush

18. • Sutter’s Mill
• California, Sacramento