WESTWARD EXPANSION CONTINUES

QUIZ TODAY!•1. you may use ONLY your reviewsheet- no phones, nothing on your desk (no talking either!)

•2. When you finish, begin filling out the timeline you should have saved last week. Summarize the events and tell me if they are CAUSE or EFFECT of westward expansion

Bell Ringer: Describe what you see in the picture

Objective/agenda

•1. Define manifest destiny/how did we accomplish it?

•2. Identify points of view over manifest destiny

•Agenda:•Notes•Document A (may have to finish for homework)

Reminders

•Not here yesterday? You need to take the quiz AND find someone to help you fill out your timeline!!!! I also collected your packets!

Manifest Destiny

•A belief shared by many Americans in the mid 1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.

Cont…

•It was our manifest destiny, or “obvious fate” to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread democracy.

Map of USA (1830)

So how do we settle land all the way to the Pacific?

Texas Claims Independence

1. Texas claims independence •White settlers in Texas secede from Mexico and claim independence for the “Republic of Texas” in 1835

•Mexico gets upset and invades the “Republic of Texas”

•The war ends after the Texas Army captures the main general, Santa Anna, for the Mexican army and trades his life for a peace treaty and Texas

2. Mexican-American War (1846-48)

•Due to the belief in “Manifest Destiny,” the USA decides to push further west to try to annex Mexican territory

•It is disputed which side, Mexican or American, was at fault for starting the war

•War results in Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which Mexico gives massive amounts of land to the US, including New Mexico and California

USA after the Mexican-American War

Document A- John O’Sullivan

•Read Document A “The Great Nation of Futurity” and answer questions that follow

Bell Ringer

•Take out your homework. I need to check it in.

•Take out your timeline and summarize “Manifest Destiny” and tell my WHY it is a cause or an effect of westward expansion

Reminders

•Not here Monday? You need to take the quiz TODAY> AFTER SCHOOL>ROOM 236

Objective/Agenda

•Analyse population density to support or contradict the need for manifest destiny

•1. BR•2. Review homework•3. Maps

Maps•You and your group will work on Handout 2 in your packet.

•Everyone must write their own answers but you will work together. Roles: Time keeper,Reader, (questions),Presenter•All groups will be held accountable!!!!!

Bell Ringer 12-17

•1. Grab a writing assignment.

2. Take out your timeline

Bell ringer: Preview the writing assignment. What am I asking you to do?

Writing Assignment

•You will have tomorrow in class to write it.

•If you will not be here tomorrow, it is due when we get back

•Email me: mmaneck@cps.edu

Typed Requirements (write this down)

•1. 12 point font•2. double spaced•3. Times New Roman

If your paper is not done in this style, you will lose points from your typed grade

Map questions review• Map 1820- support or contradict?

• Map of 1860- support or contradict?