Manifest Destiny Timeline Essay

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Manifest Destiny
Timeline
1803-1853

Cause & Effect


1803 Louisiana
Purchase –
America’s fierce determination to keep the port of
New Orleans open and France’s costly war against Britain.

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Pages 319-320
Purchase has been made, learning about the territory became more important, Lewis &
Clark Expedition.
Growth of fur trade, accurate maps
(open the west to settlers), and clash of cultures.

Cause & Effect


War of 1812 –
Impressments of
US Citizens, interference w/
American shipping, and British support of Native-American resistance. 

Page 333 Increased
American patriotism, weakened Native
American resistance
(death of
Tecumseh), and US manufacturing grew.
*Era of Good
Feelings started in
1815

Cause & Effect
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1820 Missouri
Compromise –
Adding Missouri as a slave state would upset the balance of Congress. Issue over slavery divided the nation.

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Page 358 Agreement passed between Pro
& Anti Slavery in
Congress, regulation of slavery in the western territories.
Kept a balance, divided the territories in 36 degree latitude 30’ N
= free S= slave

Cause & Effect


1823 Monroe
Doctrine - US felt threatened by
European
colonization in
Latin America.
“Leave America for the Americans”…

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Page 359 Monroe
Doctrine said that
Americas were closed to further colonization, considered dangerous to our peace and safety.
Helped US expansion and saw itself as a world power. Cause & Effect


1830 Indian
Removal Act – Pres.
Jackson believed that the gov’t had the right to regulate where
Native Am could live, pressure from settlers, discovery of gold in Georgia.

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Pages 375-376
Jackson extended the area of
“freedom”, raised an issue of
America’s mission –
Manifest Destiny….
Set the stage for
“ethnic cleansing”
(Trail of Tears).

Cause & Effect


1844 – Industrial
Revolution (18001844) great economic changes brought new machines and factories, changed
US society,

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