Manifest Destiny

Bill of Rights

Mexican-American War

Gold Rush

Florida

California

Texas

Oregon

Northerners did not want slavery expansion

Southerners did not want slavery expansion

Some Americans did not want to add a big state

The US agreed to retreat and give up its claims to Texas.

Mexico ceded land including California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming.

The US and Mexico agreed to split Texas and California.

it was good farmland

to build railroads

for gold

Great Britain

Mexico

Spain

France

Mormon people were extremely unfriendly and intimidated outsiders

Mormons were wealthy and people resented them for this

Differences about religion, politics, and economics

Competition for land and resources

Expansion of Slavery

Idea of Manifest Desitny

The expansion of railroads

The treatment of Native Americans