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      {\small{} Early American History Lecture Notes} \\[0.6cm]
      {\small{} Cameron Carroll -- October 30, 2013} \\[0.6cm]
      {\small{} Cuyamaca College}\\[1cm]
      {\small{} Manifest Destiny}\\[1cm]
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  \section{Manifest Destiny}
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   	  \item Expansion is the whole theme of the country after establishment.
      \item Manifest destiny declares that it's our god-given right to rule from sea to shining sea. We're gonna share American liberty and freedom with everybody! (Possibly by force.) 
      \item Expansionist Presidents:
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          \item Jefferson buys the Louisiana Purchase.
          \item Jackson goes into Florida and Texas.
          \item Polk goes into Mexican Cession. Was all about `54\`40 or fight' (Wanted the latitude line all the way across the top of the country.)
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      \item Modern American actions are still expansionist.
      \item When the coast became crowded, the peoplemoved North \& South to fill in the coastline. Of course, their ideas of crowded were not ours. But when the North \& South filled up, people moved West and set up trading posts \& forts all along the Appalachian mountains.
      \item They're still colonial-type times, but small forts do begin popping up.
      \item Only took 90 years to go from French \& Indian war until the Gadsden Purchase, moving from 13 colonies to occupying the entire United States.
      \item 1600's Trailblazers:
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          \item John Lederer: First guy to reach the top of the Appalachian Mountains
          \item Daniel Boone: Was a quaker, drove a wagon in French \& Indian war. When the war was over, Boone is asked to go over the mountains and see what's going on over there. Spends several months exploring, seeing if the land lived up to the legends. Starts settlement of Boonesboro, one of the first settlements along wilderness road in Kentucky.Boone leads the first white families, first white ladies into Kentucky. 
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      \item Northwest Territory is the next chunk to be settled. In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance establishes how areas become states. Starting with Ohio, it goes like this: Once the population of an area reaches 5000 people it becomes a territory. The US government then appoints one governor, three judges, and a representative assembly to run that territory. When the population reaches 60,000, the territory can apply to become a state with a representative in Congress. 
      \item Once the Indians are gone, people start pouring into the West. In Ohio alone there were like 1000 miles of trails. In 1790, 100,000 people pour into Ohio. Ten years later, 400,000 people resided in the Ohio.
      \item Louisiana Purchase: Jefferson comes up on the whole huge area for practically nothing. But it's important becaues growing tobacco and cotton depletes the soil and so we needed more land. Jefferson of course wanted an agrarian nation.
      \item 1804-1806, Lewis and Clark are sent out. They are the Corps of Discovery. Lewis was Jefferson's private secretary, an army officer from Virginia trained in folk medicine. Had 50,000 `thunderclappers' which were supposed to cure whatever you had. They were really just a diuertic. 
      \item Jefferson took their findings, sat and looked at what he had just bought. Clark was a soldier, too, and was the mapmaker. He brought his black slave along with him. 
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