How did people get around?
National road, canals, railroads, mountain men
Manifest Belief: US was destined to stretch from coast to coast
This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with MexicoTexans wanted to independence from Mexico. Sam Houston led a rebel.Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna crushed 200 Texans at the Alamo with 4000 army"Remember the Alamo!"
They declared independent in 1836 and became US state in 1846
Rio Grande - river that borders between US and Mexico
US paid Mexico 15 million $ (NM and AZ for 10$ million)
in 1848, only 20,000 people in California
James Marshall discovered gold near a sawmill near the American River
70,000 (20,000 Chinese) people came here. forty-niners
1850, California become 31st state
Chinese were not welcomed.
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