1776-1861

1. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1.1. November 1835, the northern part of the Mexican state of Coahuila-Tejas declared itself in revolt against Mexico's new centralist government headed by President Antonio López de Santa Anna

1.2. Congressional declaration of war on May 13, 1846

1.3. deleted Article X guaranteeing the protection of Mexican land grants

2. Indian Removal

2.1. Andrew Jackson from Tennessee

2.2. 1823 the Supreme Court handed down a decision which stated that Indians could occupy lands within the United States

2.3. Gave the president power to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi. gave the president power to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi.

3. Jefferson on Virginia

3.1. Blacks and whites cannot be combined.

3.2. Physical differences of Black and White

3.3. Differences in their behavior and their lifestyles.

4. Emancipation Proclamation

4.1. Abraham Lincoln order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free

4.2. Such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.

4.3. Maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

5. Manifest Destiny

5.1. By leaders and politicians in the 1840s to explain continental expansion by the United States – revitalized a sense of "mission" or national destiny for Americans..

5.2. The United States suffered two economic depressions — one in 1818 and a second in 1839. These crises drove some people to seek their living in frontier areas.

5.3. Expansion into frontier areas opened opportunities for new commerce and individual self-advancement.

6. A War of Violence, Antonia Castaneda

6.1. Families were literally split in half

6.2. The war was about slavery and access to more cotton producing land that would increase the size of the slave population.

6.3. We still live in consequences of War.