Manifest Destiny

Manifest

Easily understood or recognized by the mind

Synonyms

Obvious

Evident

Self-Explanitory

Destiny

A predetermined course of events

Synonyms

Fate

Future

Lot

Manifest Destiny

The belief that the United States had a "God-given" right to expand across the entire continent. The expansion of the U.S. was both justified due to their superior culture and inevitable.

The first person to ever find a piece of gold was James Marshall

He found it while he was building a sawmill for John Sutter

Brannan had a pan to become one of the richest man in the region.

He ran through the streets of San Francisco yelling about James Marshall's discovery

Afterwards he bought every mining tool you could think of selling them for more money then they were worth.

Station 1

John O’Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity," 1839

O'Sullivan based it off what he wants in the future.

There current nation is still growing and improving but they have many goals ahead of them. Hoping that they can accomplish there goals.

Station 2

Walt Whitman, “Pioneers! O Pioneers,” 1865

Walt Whitman is preparing everyone for war ahead.

Knowing some will die they still have to continue and move on.

His attitude was confident, aggressive, and encouraging while he is trying to persuade everyone around him.

Station 3

John O’Sullivan on California, 1845

Station 4

Walt Whitman, “Passage to India,” 1871

Station 5

John O’Sullivan, “Annexation,” 1845

Station 6

Lewis Henry Morgan, “The Destiny of the Indian,” 1851

They were supposed to change there language and stuff but they didn't

They continued to speak english

In Mexico slaves weren't allowed so they made Americans sign a contract

Texas was mostly desert in the west

Mormons believed there is always a prophet of God on the earth

Also that the heavenly messenger Moroni was the angel who appeared to Joseph Smith and told him about the golden plates.

Mormons are from New York

Then moved to illinois

Brigham Young led the Mormons to Utah

They built Salt Lake City there

They followed to Oregon trail

Why are they significant to Westward Expansion?

They were the largest group of the people to move the enmasse westward, nearly ten thousand Mormons went west all at the same time

Why did they move west?

Joseph and his brother were murdered

Knowing they weren't welcome anymore so they left

They went to Missouri

But the Mormon extermination order so they had to move again

What is their legacy?

They were the most organized

What was the cost of progress for this group?

They had to abandon their homes, farms, and cities, and move.

They lost their leader because he was murdered

Plants were flooding their crops from the Missouri and Mississippi rivers

Many diseases kept occurring

Corrupt bankers

Economic downturn

They wanted a warm, comfortable, and gentle climate

Women went because they could own their own property

They wanted to practice religious freedom

Some religious group thought it was a way to promote their beliefs