Program 3 - Manifest Destiny Wars In this program we look at the 50 years between the Revolutionary War and the Alamo. This period was the beginning of the United States' push westward...what would ultimately be called Manifest Destiny. 1797 - U.S.S. Constitution is Launched 1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe 1814 - Washington D.C. is Captured and Burned by the British 1814 - Star Spangled Banner is Written 1815 - Battle of New Orleans 1832 - Black Hawk War Ends with Massacre at Bad Axe River 1836 - Alamo Falls Program 4 - The Civil War In our fourth program we look at the years 1846 to 1865. The two wars America fought in this period could not have been more different. The Mexican American War of 1846 was a brief, almost light-hearted campaign that ended quickly and brought vast new territory to the nation. Fifteen years later, the ultimate pain of war fell directly upon the country for the first time. These were the darkest years militarily for the Republic...a time when Americans turned new, more lethal, weapons on each other in the Civil War. 1846 - United States Declares War on Mexico 1861 - Eleven States Comprise the Confederacy 1862 - Emancipation Proclamation 1863 - Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address 1863 - The Fall of Vicksburg 1865 - Lee Surrenders at Appomattox