After the War

Ch 12 Part 4

Completing the Continental United States

The last bit of territory added to the continental U.S. was a

strip of land across what is now southern New Mexico and
Arizona.
In 1853, Mexico sold the Gadsden Purchase to the U.S. for
$10 million

James K. Polk had already secured the Northern U.S.

boundary by splitting the Oregon Country with England in
1846. They agreed to split the land at the area of the current
Canadian border.
Therefore, this new Gadsden Purchase formed the southern
border and gave the United States its current shape. The
U.S. now stretched from sea to shining sea.

Ok, what is left? Still some holes in the map,

The Gadsden Purchase was necessary to
where
are
the
missing
pieces?
There we
go,
Its
Oregon!
Is
there
anything
build a railroad to California
else we are forgetting?

MANIFEST DESTINY

Oregon Country
1846, by Treaty
with Great
Britain
Mexican
Cession 1848

Gadsden
Purchase-1853

Louisiana
Purchase in
1803 from
France
Annexation
of Texas
-1845

This became
Part of the
U.S. in 1783
With the
Treaty of
Paris
From the
Adams-Ons
Treaty in 1819

James K. Polk checklist

Expand the United States
Annex Texas
Fulfill Manifest Destiny
Acquire the Oregon Territory
He also lowered tariffs and
established the U.S. Treasury

Disagreements Over the Border of Texas

The Treaty of
Guadalupe
Hidalgo: Rio
Grande was the
border of Texas.
Texas included
much of present
day New Mexico,
including Santa Fe,
part of Texas.

Issue of Slavery
Texas: admitted to U.S. as a slave state
U.S. needed balance of slave/free states for Senate

Slave sale in Easton, Maryland

Compromise of 1850
1.California became a
state as a free state
2.New Mexico and Utah
became territories and
voted as to whether or
not they wanted slavery

Lets make
a deal!

3.The slave trade, but not

slavery itself was ended
in Washington D.C.
4.The Fugitive Slave Law
was passed.

Henry Clay, the Great

Compromiser,
negotiates the
Compromise of 1850
in the U.S. Congress.

What About
Texas?

Pearce
Texas Agreed to the border
proposed by James Pearce
of Maryland rather than that
of Henry Clay

Part of the Compromise

of 1850 was the Texas
and New Mexico Act-Texas agreed to give up
some of its territory, for
$10 Million. This created
Texas present day
borders.
Many in Texas were
angry about this
agreement, but most
realized that Texas
needed the money, to

MANIFEST DESTINY

Give it a try, see if you can you name each

one, this will be on the STAAR next year.
Oregon Country
1846, by Treaty
6
with Great
Britain
Mexican
Cession 51848

Louisiana
Purchase in
1803 from
France

Annexation
of Texas
Area 54
-1845
Gadsden
Purchase-1853
Area
7

1783 With
the Treaty1 of
Paris

From the
Area 3Adams-Ons
Treaty in 1819