This Land is My Land That Land is My Land Destiny.pdf · Come my tan-faced children, Follow well in...
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This Land is My Land
That Land is My Land
I Want All of the Land
Come my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? Pioneers! O pioneers!
For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!
O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers!
Do the feasters gluttonous feast? Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors? Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground, Pioneers! O pioneers!
Has the night descended? Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged nodding on our way? Yet a passing hour I yield you in your tracks to pause oblivious, Pioneers! O pioneers!
Till with sound of trumpet, Far, far off the daybreak call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind, Swift! to the head of the army!--swift! spring to your places, Pioneers! O pioneers!
• The US Constitution was signed and we were officially a
country with 13 states
• By 1800, we had already expanded considerably and
were growing rapidly
• A sentiment began to develop about the expansion of US
territory
• Was the belief that American settlers were destined to
expand our nation all the way to the Pacific (from sea to
shining sea)
• Expanding the US all the way to the Pacific was a difficult
task because:
• We didn’t own any of the land
• There weren’t any Americans in these areas
• We had no idea how to develop an economy in these areas
• So, in order to accomplish Manifest Destiny, the US
needed to establish the ___________ of ___________ in
the West.
• Let’s play a game. I’ll describe a milestone in our path to
Manifest Destiny, and you tell me which factor of
production was being established.
• In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson worked out a deal
in which we bought about a third of the continent from
France for 11 million dollars.
• Jefferson then sent two explorers to map the new land
and take note of its resources. A guide named Sacajawea
made this considerably more possible.
• The first people to try and settle the new territory were
known as the Mountain Men. They made a living trapping
rare animals and selling their pelts for fur.
• An altercation (over a cannon) at a Mexican fort called
the Alamo led to American troops taking the Texas
territory. Texan settlers wanted it to be a state, but the US
government waited 10 years to grant statehood.
• In the 1850s, President James Polk provoked a war with
Mexico when they were unwilling to sell us land in the
west. We won, and took the land (yay).
• After the discovery of gold in the California River in 1848
(at Sutter’s Sawmill), many settlers moved west to
acquire it.
• The next year was a mad rush for many Americans to
make their fortunes on the acquisition of precious metals.
• What is Walt Whitman trying to say in Pioneers, Oh
Pioneers?