Intro to westward expansion

Manifest Destiny

Lesson Objectives

We will- Identify Manifest destiny and why Americans moved west

I will- take notes and answer comprehension questions.

Essential Question:
What is Manifest Destiny?

Lesson Vocab

Manifest Destiny: U.S should expand westward from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean

Pioneer: Someone who is first to enter a region

Migration: Moving from one place to another

Annex: to add land, or territory, into a country

Hotspot

Where is the Atlantic Ocean on this map?

Hotspot

Where is the Pacific Ocean on this map?

Multiple Choice

Which statement explains one of the motivations behind Manifest Destiny?

• "These are times that try mens' souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot..... shrink form the service of his country....."

• "I do declare that all persons held as slaves within designated states shall be free....."

• "that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure themselves the right to vote"

• "and the claim is by the right.... to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us.....

Open Ended

Look at the painting of American Progress and list 3 things you observed.

REasons to move west

• New markets: Americans can sell goods in new places

• More land: Farmland to grow agricultural goods

• Discovery of gold in California: Americans wanted to become rich finding gold and other resources

Barriers to expansion

• Native Americans: inhabited land west and attacked

• Land owned by other countries: Mexico owned land that the U.S wanted

• Harsh journey: No paved roads, horrible weather, attacks from native Americans.

Multiple Choice

Open the picture and answer the question

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Match

Match the following to the correct term

• Manifest Destiny

• Annex

• Gold

• Native Americans

U.S should expand from sea to sea

Visually explains Manifest Destiny

to add territory to a country

Reason to move west

Barrier to expansion

• U.S should expand from sea to sea

• Visually explains Manifest Destiny

• to add territory to a country

• Reason to move west

• Barrier to expansion