1. As stated in the text for much of the early history of Nevada it was never considered as a

Manifest destiny was the belief that God wanted the United States to own all of North America (Hall 301). But John O’Sullivan really only envisioned that white men were the only ones privileged enough to receive liberty (Hal 301). The Manifest Destiny was caused by the American people it gave them a sense of superiority over the other peoples who lived in North America. The declaration of the Manifest destiny wanted to expand the U.S. territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. Eventually the United States won the war it had ended on February 2, 1848 when Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United

The Washoe and Paiute tribe’s lives changed with the influx of settlers that came with the Comstock mining rush. Nevada being a desert had limited resources and the settlers came in and started using them without care. The whites cut down pine trees that were a food source to the tribes, they dug big holes while mining for minerals, and they hunted the game of the area. The use of these limited resources caused tension between the whites and the Indians and settlers.

Many nations such as Spain, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States claimed this territory, but under the “Transcontinental Treaty, Spain ceded its claims to the territory to the United States” (The Oregon Territory, 1846). It was stated in Source B, “Polk was eager to settle the boundary of the Oregon territory and proposed a settlement on the 49-degree line to Great Britain” (The Oregon Territory, 1846). Expansion continues when Mexico offers Americans cheap land sold through recruiting agents. In this land many “Anglo-Americans” from the US settled in Mexican Texas.

Before the missions came to exist the land which is today known as California has already been inhabited by Indigenous people for thousands of years. The land was their treasure and they celebrated in their everyday life while also using its resources. Once Europeans came in the picture the establishment of the missions began. One of these missions was the San Gabriel Arcángel mission. As they were introduced the indigenous people were brought to them with the goal being to Christianize and civilize them.

Made the Northwest Territory (zone north of the Ohio River and west of Pennsylvania), set up

During the debate over war with Mexico, many people were interested in expanding the territory due to enslaving people. James Polk, was very interested in annexing Mexico, but he thought it was a dangerous option. After James Polk was fully convinced that the annexation of Mexico would be beneficial, he was willing to go to any extent to get what he wanted, and that was the territory that is now known as California. The main goal during Manifest Destiny was to conquer as much land as possible.

One of the laws created in the Compromise of 1850 was allowing California to be a free state. This allowed other territories including Utah and New Mexico to be determined by popular sovereignty (Doc

Unlike many other states Nevada’s statehood is very much connected to the Civil war and is not just a gambling town. Nevada was the second of only two states to be added to the Union during the Civil War. Some people from Nevada or that know a lot about Nevada may call it by one if its three most common nicknames such as, Battle-Born State, Sagebrush State, and Silver State. Nevada got its name from a group of Spaniards who called it Nevada which translated to English means snowy, because of how the mountains were always covered in snow during the winter. Today Nevada is part of the United States, which has not always been the case, Nevada became part of Mexico in 1821, and was not in possession of America until the Mexican-American War in 1848.When Nevada was finally taken by the United States, it became part of the Utah territory and was no longer called Nevada, until silver was discovered in the Comstock Lode in 1859 which led to a population boom, which led to Nevada becoming its own territory, but it still hadn’t made its way to statehood yet.

The Pacific Railway Act passed in 1862. Which paved the way for two companies-- the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific--to construct a railroad that would connect Omaha, Nebraska to the west coast. With this type of expansion the railroad became the easiest way of moving westward. Since this was the easiest form of transportation of goods the Western settlement increased and more railroads were built. It was also the easiest way to get goods to the market. This meant that the settlement revolved around where the different locations of the railroad depots would be built. Which in turn made the residents move their markets and ranches closer to a railroad so they could transport their goods. In turn the placement of the railroad depot forever

In the 1840’s to 1850’s the United States of America wanted to expand the U.S to the Pacific coast, this was called Manifest Destiny. The only problem was Mexico owed, today states, California, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and some parts of Colorado.

As the years progressed, the United States was willing to acquire new land. In 1803 the US received the Louisiana territory from France and in 1819, Spain ceded Florida to the US. Citizens of the US however believed it was their right given by God to rule over the whole continent. In order to do that, the US needed Mexico to give up land. Mexico had received independence from Spain in 1821. Texas was annexed by the US from Mexico in 1845. Mexico was not happy about this and the whole conflict had started the Mexican American War which started in 1846 and America won in 1848. As a result, the US gained the rest of the states that make up the United States. The benefits of the Manifest Destiny such as new land and a more advanced political view

For its former western half but it’s the only way to achieve statehood Arizona with its growing Anglo majority however roundly rejected the prospect. On January 6, 1912, after years of debate on whether the population of New Mexico was fully assimilated into American culture, or too immersed in corruption, President William Howard Taft twisted arms in Congress and New Mexico became the 47th state of the Union.[39] The admission of the neighboring Arizona on February 14, 1912

California was a popular state to travel for mining, in addition to agriculture (“Transportation”). Furthermore, sometime around the 1890s, a group of “Mormons from

Many different explorers wanted to capture and take control of the land they didn’t own. They knew that the task was not one that would be easy. Lots of different explorers faced the task of removing the Natives as well as the other Countries fighting for the land. The settlers soon began to realize the opportunities they had in front of them. Explorers from Spain, England, Russia, and the new United States, looked with interest toward the Northwest. A major goal of the explorers was to discover the so-called "Northwest Passage" to the Pacific Ocean.

First, one has to remember that dissenter rancher, Cliven Bundy, raised an important statehood question during the hair-raising show-down between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the armed citizen militia supporting the cattle rancher. Originally Bundy was legitimately and faithfully paying grazing fees to Clark County, but that the county stopped accepting his payments. Bundy's legal claim is that Nevada State, not the U.S. government, owns the land where his cattle where grazing next to his family's homesteaded ranch property for nearly a century even before BLM was ever created. The legal argument before the courts, and presently fully accepted by Nevada's own State Government, is that federal government was legally in control of every territory before it became a state, but once statehood was reached, the majority of land rightly becomes the property of the new state. Presently, the federal government has not pursued any further legal issue or any overture governmental response concerning the Bundy's standing, and quietly in the background is a state movement to ensure the Federal Government's monopolizing 85 percent control of Nevada is fairly proportionally diminished and given to the state as rightfully due. Some could say that the Bundy standoff incident was the historical and productive apex needed to get the ball rolling in