1. DAY THREE GROUP C, YO
Bianca, Alexa, Rebecca

2. • "Manifest Destiny" was a term coined in
the 1830s and 1840s that expressed the
belief that the United States was pre-
ordained to expand from the Atlantic coast
to the Pacific coast, and became a rallying
cry for expansionists in the Democratic
Party in the 1840s.

3. THESIS
• Manifest Destiny was in fact an aggressive and
imperialist movement because of our
inhumane treatment of the Native Americans,
our forceful expansion into Mexican territory,
and the subsequent war based on faulty
evidence.

4. Native Americans
• John Tyler, president 1841-1845, Whig
party
• Second Seminole War; fought Native
American in Florida (Lead by Chief
Osceola)
• We continued to push them westward
• between 1841-1849, approximately
40,000 Indians had resettled in Indian
territory

6. Polk and the War
• James K. Polk, 1845-1849, Jacksonian
Democracy
• Won the ticket by promising to annex Texas
• Started the Mexican American War
• His address to Congress pleading for war was
filled with falsities; the bloodshed that was
caused by Mexican troops was in fact provoked
by the American soldiers; they were on Mexican
land at the time
• Lincoln’s Spot Resolutions demanded the exact
location of where the blood was spilled, but
nobody paid it much heed

7. Mexican American War
• We provoke the Mexicans with the
annexation of Texas, which they
considered apart of their land (it was)
• Our troops invaded New Mexico and
California, and then parts of Northern
Mexico
• After capturing Mexico City and ending the
war, both sides signed the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo