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Americans moved to the West for many reasons: economic, adventures, and to avoid religious persecution. A large amount of
Americans traveled the Oregon Trail. There was a group called Mormans. The Manifest Destiny was coined in 1845. The term referred
to a doctrine in support of territorial expansion based on the beliefs that population growth demanded territorial expansion,
that God supported American expansion, and that national expansion equaled the Expansion of freedom.
The Mexican-Americans didn't want peace when they found out about the U.S annexation of Texas and assumed its claim to
the disputed. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed in 1848. The Treaty ended the Mexican-American war, so Mexico relinquished
it's claims to Texas and ceded an additional 500,000 sq.mi to the U.S for $15 million.
This was also a period where technology had advanced in inventions, such as the telegraph and the railroad.
Important Facts-
~Young America-in the 1840s and early 1850s, many public figures used this term to describe a movement that advanced territorial
expansion and industrial growth in the name of patriotism.
~Webster-Ashburton Treaty-this 1842 agreement with Britain resolved the boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick,
Canada, setting the northeastern U.S border.
~Alamo- In 1835, Americans living in Mexico's state of Texas formented a Revolution. Mexico lost the conflict but not
before it's troops defeated and killed a group of American rebels at the Alamo( a fort in San Antonio).
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