Seven pages and 10 sources. This paper provides an overview of the concept of manifest destiny and then relates this concept to the transformation of the state in the late 19th century . This paper considers the transformation of California and the impacts that resulted from the views of manifest destiny.
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to Use This Paper Properly, INTRODUCTION This paper explains the connection between early California History and manifest destiny. This period of Californias history is just
before it became a member of the Union of the States. This piece of time in Californias past is a very exciting one while at the same time, terribly
difficult as well. EARLY CALIFORNIA It was in July of 1846 that California came under control of the United States. The home of the governor at that time
was Los Angeles, which was a small and slow little town, quite the opposite of what it has ggrown into today. The Yankees soon found their main interest was
focused not on the Monterey Bay area, which had been vastly overrated as a seaport town, and rather on the San Francisco Bay and the rivers which fed it --
the Petaluma (leading through Sonoma), the Napa, the San Joaquin, and the Sacramento (leading to Sutters fort). These areas already had the dubious distinction of being the centers of
Yankee settlement. Only two days after the American flag rose in the center of town in July, 1846, More than two hundred Mormon settlers moved in. This served to
triple the population of that little town. The leader of this group, Samuel Brannon, was quickly expelled from the Mormon Church, but he did make history when he started
Californias first news paper called the California Star. The then-governor of California, Kearny felt that the location of San Francisco would soon lend itself to be the important city he