Slide 1 Fort Sumter, First Manassas, Early Amphibious Operations Slide 2 Fort Sumter When states seceded from the Union they generally took all Federal forts with them Fort…

Slide 1 THE MEXICAN WAR PHOTO OPT Slide 2 An American Family Photographer unknown. Courtesy of William J. Schultz, M.D. Slide 3 A Mexican Family Photographer unknown, circa…

Slide 1 Manifest Destiny: The U.S. Mexican War Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Manifest Destiny Defined  Term first coined by John L. O’Sullivan in Democratic Review, July 1845…

Slide 1 Battles of the Texas Revolution Slide 2 Sam Houston  Appointed major general of Texas Army by in November, 1835  Days after Texas declared its independence…

Slide 1 American History Chapter 5.2 Expansion Slide 2 Manifest Destiny Belief that God gave America the right (and purpose) “to stretch from sea to shining sea” Started…

Slide 1 U.S. Imperialism (1898-1914) Spreading imperialism OR spreading democracy? Slide 2 #Ilovemetaphors This movie… or, that? (You tell me.) Slide 3 By the end of the…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Launch List 1. Describe the Missouri Compromise. 2. What was the Gag Rule? 3. Why did Preston Brooks put Charles Sumner in a coma? Slide 3 Picture/Polk James…