Chapter+14+Manifest+Destiny

= = The Crisis of the Union =Manifest Destiny?=

Some of them cultivate their farms by planting corn; but this task they usually entrust to their negro slaves, whom they treat with considerable harshness.
//**Jose Maria Sanchez,**// //a Mexican surveyor, sent on an expedition to the border of Mexico,// //which then included Texas and Louisiana (April 1828)//

=Changing it up at President= =Who Where the New //Whigs//?=
 * [[image:MartinVanBurenDollar.jpg width="250" height="250"]] || [[image:william-henry-harrison-presidential-dollar.jpg width="250" height="250"]] ||
 * || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/editor/insert_table.gif]][[image:Harrison_log_cabin_campaign.jpg width="700" height="260" caption="Harrison Campaign Add"]] ||



=1844=
 * || [[image:James-K.-Polk-Presidential-Dollar.jpg width="358" height="358"]][[image:HenryClay.JPEG width="286" height="366" align="right" caption="Henry Clay"]] ||




 * [[image:Moses_Austin_.jpg width="204" height="301" align="left" caption="Moses Austin "]] || [[image:Austin.jpg width="258" height="327" caption="Stephen F. Austin"]] ||



= = = =

= = = = =Wrenching Land from Mexico=

=War and President Polk=


 * < [[image:zacTaylor.jpg caption="“Old Rough and Ready” General Zachary Taylor"]] ||< [[image:Gen._Winfield_Scott_mexican-war.jpg caption="Gen. Winfield Scott “Old Fuss and Feathers” "]] ||



=Palo Alto=

= = =Oregon Dispute=



=** Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo **=



= “They just want Californy/So’s to lug new slave states = = in/To abuse ye = = and to scorn ye/And to plunder ye like sin,” =

// Poet James Russell Lowell in 1848 //

=**Rushing for Gold**=

=**Risking life and limb to strike gold**=

=Western Robber Barons=
 * = [[image:HuntingtonCollis.jpg width="145" height="212" caption="Collis Huntington"]]

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=War, Expansion, and Slavery= =**__ Mexican Cession __**=



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=Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph=
 * =the slavery issue=