Immigration and Expansion (1840-1860) Flipbook PDF

Immigration Patterns, 1840-1860 4 million immigrants to the U.S. German and Irish predominate Most will vote Democratic

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Immigration and Expansion (1840-1860)

Immigration Patterns, 18401860   

4 million immigrants to the U.S. German and Irish predominate Most will vote Democratic (machine politics, anti-temperance as issues)

Nativist Backlash 

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Fear non-English immigration, Catholicism, and labor competition See republicanism being threatened Push public school movements and Americanization of immigrants

Manifest Destiny    

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Spread of American civilization westward Mexicans criticized for lack of settlement Indian removals (“savage” cultures) Indian tribal divisions facilitate White expansion Need for farm and grasslands Avoidance of class-conflict in eastern society Railroad and telegraph spur development

Origins of the Mexican War, 1821-1846

Mexican Independence  

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Defeat of Spain (1821) Sparse settlements (mission systems) Conflict between Federalist/Centralists Indian rebellions Increase in number of American settlers in Texas

The Texas War of Independence (1836) 

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Mexico closes Texas to further American settlement (1830) Santa Anna wants centralized control of Texas, taxes on province Texians defeated at the Alamo and Goliad Republic of Texas declared (1836) Battle of San Jacinto and Mexican Army surrender Mexico does not accept Texas

Origins of the Mexican War   

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Texas annexed to the Union (1845) Mexico ends relations with the U.S. U.S. claims Rio Grande River as border with Mexico Mexico claims Nueces River as Texas boundary American troops sent into disputed territory in 1846 under Zachary Taylor Skirmishes in Texas lead to U.S. war declaration

The Mexican War 

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Whig opposition (Spot Resolutions, slaveholder conspiracy) American superiority in artillery, leadership Stephen Kearny takes Santa Fe, heads to California (1846) Tampico taken by Zachary Taylor (1846) John C. Fremont and the Bear Flag Revolt Veracruz and Mexico City fall to Winfield Scott (1847)

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)  

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Texas ceded at the Rio Grande New Mexico, California to U.S for 15 million Present day Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Colorado are part of territorial cessions U.S. pays debts of Americans to Mexico Annexations create conflict between expansionists and anti-slavery