Westward Expansion
By: Jorge Bravo
Manifest Destiny Painting
This picture presents the Americans going west. They consist of miners and farmer. The dark area is showing how they are kicking out the Indians. Also the train shows how they are building train tracks for people to move faster.
Battle of the Alamo
The battle of the Alamo is when Texans and Mexicans fought and the Mexican army killed every single Mexicans.
Battle of Jacinto
This battle was won by the Americans. during the battle they captured the Mexican president and forced him to sing a treaty. This paved the way to the start of Texas.
1827 UK and US jointly occupy Oregon
Basically when the us and UK agreed to share the land
1836 Texas Independence established
Texas was able to win the fight with Mexico giving them there freedom making Texas its own thing later it would because a state for the U.S.
1845 Texas annexed
This is when Texas wanted to expand there land so they fought people around it.
1846 US declares war on Mexico
President K. Polk declares war on mexico over Texas.
1848 Mexican cession
Mexico wanted the boundary to Rio Grande but the us did not want to do that so they began to fight. It ended with the treaty of Guadalupe which gave Texas to the us.
1848 Gold discovered in CA.
Gold was discovered in CA. thousands of people in to that state.
1849 Gold Rush starts
Thousands of people came to CA. for the gold there mining in hope to get them enough gold to make a good living.
1853 Gadsden purchase
When the U.S. bout a chunk of Mexican land for 10 million Dollars. The land later become part of Arizona and new mexico.
Why did setters move to Texas?
The reson they moved to Texas is all the free land. People basically moved there because no one lived there meaning a lot of land that no one owned. They would move there for free land.
The four trails
1-California- is used for land and gold
2-St Fe-is used for trading
3-Oregon-this trail was used for land
4-Mormon-was used for religious reasons
Mexican american war
1-Causes- Texas wanted to be free
2-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidaglo-This is when america got a lot of land that consist of present day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming
3-Bear Flag Revolt-This is basically when California went against the Mexican gov. and named its self its own republic but soon after the American army occupied California
4-Gadsden Purchase-This is when america bought a chunk of land from mexico
Performance writing
I have worked on this steam bout business for many years but this amount of people coming in so fast business has never been this good. There are two types of people coming. One is the miners the dreamers that think they can strike it rich by mining gold. There is also the people that are going to use the people to make a business. If you ask me i think the businesses people are going be the ones that are going to get rich. Just think about it i transport hundreds of people that all need supplies. Also bakers people cant bring that much food people are going to have to eat to eat because food is necessary. Some people that come are just desperate for money.