Manifest Destiny In The 1840s

During the 1840s, the number of Americans ventured west into Texas, Oregon, and California increased. The states consumed the sense that the destiny was to authorized a nation that can comprised both coasts. President Andrew Jackson had attacked to buy California for $3.5 million in the year of 1835; however, Mexico had rejected the offered from Jackson. The word “Manifest Destiny” means in the 19th century concept that the expansion of the United State throughout the American continents was both justified and inexorable. “Manifest Destiny” was used in the mid of 1840s, yet I believed I can still see evidence of attitude even before the phrase was used.

Mexico opened the northern coastal region located in California to foreign after Spain gained independence in 1821.From the east of California, American vessels were soon committed in lucrative commerce with the Californios which is Californias of Spainish descent. In Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, “California extends along nearly the whole of the western coast of Mexico, between the gulf of California in the south and the bay of Sir Francis Drake on the north, or between the 22d and 38d degrees of north latitude” (57). The Californios developed a taste for

When 60 years past, twenty-one California mission had engaged 142 priests and baptized 53,600 natives. Missions were located at churches, towns, schools, farms, factories, and prisons. “The only ports which are safe from this wind are San Francisco and Monterey in the north, and San Diego in the south” (58). However, the vast lands composed by the mission who made Mexican republicans their target, but they began calling for the property of the church from the government. In 1834, Secularization began half of the mission lands to be turned to local native groups. Native Californians were not able to told that their owned land and some of the Californians drifted away from the