Manifest destiny, Oregon trail, etc.

What is Manifest Destiny?

• Manifest Destiny is the idea that the United States had a mission to bring freedom to all the continent by colonizing all of it.

• What is colonization? Taking people's lands and property by force to make it mine.

• In 1819, the U.S. convinced Spain to give up their territory, this was called the Adams-Onis Treaty.

• In 1819, the English and the Americans decided to jointly occupy the Oregon Country.

What was the Adams-Onis Treaty?

•  In 1824, Russia gave up its territory in Alaska that extended into the Oregon County.

• In 1819, the U.S. convinced Spain to give up their territory, this was called the Adams-Onis Treaty.

•        In 1819, the English and the Americans decided to jointly occupy the Oregon Country.

• the northern border of the Oregon territory.

Who were the mountain men?

• People who fought in the war for independence

• People who lived and fought against the French Empire

• People who lived in the Rocky Mountains of Oregon and that traded and adopted Native American ways, had a major role in connecting the East of the U.S. to the new West

• People who lived and fought against the Russian Empire

What is colonization?

• the idea that the United States had a mission to bring freedom to all the continent by colonizing all of it.

• the northern border of the Oregon territory.

• the idea that gave land and property to people who needed it

• Taking people's lands and property by force to make it mine.

What was the Oregon trail?

• The the passage connecting the East to the West of the U.S.

•  northern border of the Oregon territory

• Taking people's lands and property by force to make it mine.

What was the "Fifty-Forty or Fight”

• was meant to be the line marking the northern border of the Oregon territory.

• Passage connecting the East to the West of the U.S.

• The idea the U.S. had to bring peace by colonizing lands in the west

• men who lived in the Rocky Mountains of Oregon and that traded and adopted Native American ways, had a major role in connecting the East of the U.S. to the new West.