9. Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny

A. Forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi West
B. Western migration and cultural interactions
C. Territorial acquisitions
D. Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War

Links:

• Indian Removal: 1814 – 1858
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html
• Digital History: Indian Removal
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=638
• Primary Documents: Indian Removal Act
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html
• Native American Removal and the Trail of Tears
http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=24&review=yes
• John L. O’Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839
  http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/osulliva.htm
• Expansionism & Manifest Destiny
  http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/lec.mandest.html
• Manifest Destiny Resources
  http://www.teacheroz.com/19thcent.htm#west
• Manifest Destiny PPT
  http://amhist.ist.unomaha.edu/module_files/Manifest%20Destiny.ppt
• Digital History: Manifest Destiny
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/resource_guides/content.cfm?tpc=11
• Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=164&review=yes
• Maps of Territorial Growth
  http://etc.usf.edu/maps/galleries/us/growthofnation/index.htm
• Wilmot Proviso
  http://college.cengage.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_092800_wilmotprovis.htm
• Digital History: The Political Crisis of the 1840s – Wilmot Proviso
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=321
• Digital History: Westward Expansion – The Pacific Northwest
  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=315
• Expansionism and Manifest Destiny -http://faculty.polytechnic.org//gfeldmeth/USHistory.html
• National Expansion and Reform
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/expref/
• An Age of Expansionism (PPT)
http://www.kirkwood.k12.mo.us/parent_student/KHS/plattes/Chapter_13.htm
• Early U.S. Imperialism: The Mexican War
http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=42&review=yes
• A Guide to the Mexican War
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/mexicanwar/
• Key Events in the Mexican-American War -
  http://faculty.cbhs.org/clewis/new_page_46.htm
• Mexican War
  http://college.cengage.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_059100_mexicanwar.htm
• Chart: Key Events in the Mexican-American War -http://faculty.polytechnic.org//gfeldmeth/USHistory.html