THE MANIFEST DESTINY

THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE

• The purchase from France costed the Americans 15 million dollars.
• Since the French needed the money for wars they agreed for this trade to happen.
• The purchase was made from 1803-1804, French owned this land from 1699-1762.
• The trade was made under the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
• Jefferson decided to make this trade to get the French from the New Orleans Port.

TEXAS ANNEXATION

• Texas was owned by Mexico before we bought it out in 1845.
• Americans declared Texas as the 28th state, Americans declared their
• independence from Mexico in 1836.
• The U.S. was afraid of going into war with Mexico causing poverty.
• The Mexican government refused to acknowledge this fact and tried anyway.

OREGON COUNTRY

• Americans and Britain agreed to share Oregon Country in 1818.
• Pioneers took wagons and cattle cross-country to claim the land that was theirs.
• Many people went to start new lives, or strike it rich trying to discover gold.
• U.S. and Greta Britain agree to divide the Oregon Country into equal parts for both countries.
• By the year of 1846 the U.S. owned the entire Oregon Country

MEXICAN CESSION

• The Mexicans are mad in the year of 1848 because they think they still have a
• claim on Texas. The Mexican Cession was created in result of Mexican War.
• The Mexican War left the SouthWest in ruins, so the U.S. decided to try and
• claim it, which resulted in Mexico beginning to get mad with the U.S. for taking "their land".