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NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 13 “Manifest Destiny: 1836–1848” COMMON THREADS How did the expansion of slavery in the 1820s and 1830s affect US foreign policy in the 1840s? How did settlers’ preconceptions of other cultures affect their attitudes toward expansion? How did the Democratic Party change between 1828 and 1848? Was “manifest destiny” consistent with the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 or a repudiation of it? How important were the politics of slavery in the 1840s compared with the previous decade and the decade following? OUTLINE The Decline of Jacksonianism Political Parties in Crisis Van Buren and the Legacy of Jackson The Political Economy of the Trans-Mississippi West Manifest Destiny in Antebellum Culture Texas American Landscape: Culture and Politics in Manifest Destiny: Tejanos in Texas Pacific Bound Nations of the Trans-Mississippi West Slavery and the Political Economy of Expansion Log Cabins and Hard Cider: The Election of 1840 And Tyler, Too Occupy Oregon, Annex Texas War with Mexico America and the World: Lt. Rankin Dilworth in the War with Mexico Conclusion WHO? WHAT? Henry Clay Panic of 1837 Mah-i-ti-wo-nee-ni Manifest destiny Tejanos The Republic of Texas John Tyler REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What was the depression of 1837, and what were its origins? 2. Why were Whigs cautious about westward migration? 3. Why was the annexation of Texas so controversial? 4. Support for American expansion was often expressed in the language of freedom and civilization. But was there also a racial component to “manifest destiny”? Explain your answer. 5. Did the territorial additions of the 1840s represent a departure (in method or intent) from earlier acquisitions? 6. How and why did the Democratic Party change between 1828 and 1848? NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 13 “Manifest Destiny: 1836–1848”