WE Remediation

Westward Expansion Remediation

This will be both a grade on its own, and can be used to improve the summative grade.

Poll

How do you feel about your grade for Westward Expansion Unit?

• I'm satisfied with my grade.

• I'm fine with my grade.

• I'm unsatisfied with my grade.

• I don't care about grades.

Westward Expansion

Causes

Manifest Destiny

Cheap Land

Mining (Gold Rush)

Marketing (the West is better than back home)

-John O'Sullivan, 1845

" ...the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development..." 

​What is Manifest Destiny?

The belief that it was destined by God for the United States to grow, and takeover North America. This destiny is MANIFEST, or obvious to everyone in the United States.

Gold discovered in CA in 1848

49-ers: thousands of people who move to CA in 1849 to strike it rich

Boomtowns: cities grow FAST

80% miners = Americans

Chinese Immigrants, also

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California Gold Rush

Westward Expansion

​Events

Texas Independence

Oregon Territory

Mexican American War

Transportation Revolution

Texas owned by MEXICO

Americans move to TX for cheap land

Disagreements over laws/slavery

Declare Independence, War breaks out

After many defeats, TX wins

Does not become a state bc slavery

​​Texas Independence

Oregon was shared bw US & Britain

Pres. Polk - 54, 40 or Fight!

Compromise at 49th parallel

Oregon Trail, etc.

Oregon Territory

​War started over Border Disputes.

US wants Southwest

US wins, Mexico cedes land

​Mexican American War

After the war, Mexico cedes a LOT of land

​$15 million

Will this new land allow slavery?

Mexican Cession

Westward Expansion

​Effects

Chinese mistreatment

Spread of Slavery

Displacement of Native Americans

Growth of the United States

Arguments over Expansion of Slavery

Multiple Choice

How did Chinese Immigrants contribute to Westward Expansion?

• They worked as laborers on the transcontinental railroad.

• They fought for the US during the Mexican American War.

• They paid taxes that were used to buy the Gadsden Purchase.

• A Chinese immigrant was the first person to find gold in CA.

Multiple Choice

How were Chinese immigrants impacted by Westward Expansion?

• Chinese immigrants got rich in the Gold Rush.

• Chinese immigrants were targeted with high taxes and discriminatory laws.

• Chinese immigrants were allowed to move to the US.

• Chinese immigrants owned railroads built in the US.

Multiple Choice

Read the following quote.

"Already I see in the swift-coming future, not weak & sparsely settled Territories on it route, but rich & growing States through which the iron base will speed his way..."

Which idea is expressed in this quote?

• Universal Suffrage

• Sectionalism

• Manifest Destiny

• Secession

Multiple Choice

How did the United States' victory in the Mexican American War relate to Westward Expansion?

• America's belief in Manifest Destiny led them to declare war on SPAIN

• The Mexican Cession added over 500,000 square miles of territory to the US

• The additional territory won in the war abolished slavery

• Native Americans and Mexicans living in the Southwest were forced to leave

Multiple Choice

Use the quote to answer the question below.

"..the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development..."

What is the speaker referring to?

• invention of steam engines

• spread of slavery

• agriculture

• westward expansion

Multiple Choice

Which statement describes one way life changed for Native Americans in the 1800s?

• They were forced to move North

• They were forced to become farmers

• They were forced to move to reservations

• They were forced to fight in American wars

Multiple Choice

How did the Transportation Revolution aid Westward Expansion?

• It allowed for faster, cheaper movement of goods and people

• New inventions made farming more productive

• The demand for slavery increased along with cotton growing

• Steamboats allowed for two-way travel on rivers

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a cause of Westward Expansion?

• Silver being found in the Appalachian Mountains

• The purchase of Oregon Territory from Britain

• The belief that the US was destined to reach the Pacific

• The demand for cotton to use in texttile factories

Multiple Choice

What is Manifest Destiny?

• The belief that the US was destined to reach the Pacific Ocean

• The religion practiced by Native Americans in the Southwest

• The document signed to end the Mexican-American War

• The businesses started during the Gold Rush

Multiple Choice

What was one effect of Westward Expansion?

• Mexican immigrants moved to the US to work on railroads

• Native Americans were granted status as citizens with the 14th Amendment

• The US was forced to sell territory to Mexico after the war

• The North and South argued over whether new territories should be slave or free states