Westward Expansion Territories

Which phrase BEST supports the argument that believers of Manifest Destiny believed it was God's will?

(type the phrase)

This is a painting by John Gast in 1872 named "American Progress."

Which of the following statements is most likely the angel's symbolism?

(Thinking question.)

• The angel symbolizes the divine justification for westward expansion of the U.S. under Manifest Destiny.

• The angel symbolizes the death that will take place when many settlers move westward.

• The angel symbolizes that the United States never does anything wrong.

• The angel symbolizes the divine right to make other people slaves.

I understand that I am to use the slides to do the first part of this assignment.

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gEFtdPHBY9wBpbCJqMUuqbTcAxjZKDTcOKfcmXOAz8g/edit?slide=id.g365b5492f96_1_15#slide=id.g365b5492f96_1_15

• yes

• no

• not again

• squirrel nachos

Match the vocabulary with its definition

• cession

• officially adding a territory to a country

• migration

• traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.

• exploration

• an organized division of a country that is not yet admitted to the full rights of a state

• territory

• giving up territory to another country

• annexation

• the act of moving from one place to another

The idea that it was obvious that the United States would one day be a country that acquired all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

I understand that I am to use the notes to do the next part of the assignment.

Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uCOGaixT9u3BNQBU678cMbdXHPFT343VjOFxiwwkFVw/edit?tab=t.0

• yes

• no

• I cry in my sleep over stuff like this!

• That's it! The teacher has gone loony?

British settlements in America

Land was ceded to the United States by Great Britain as part of the end of the American Revolutionary War as a result of the _____________________________________.

The United States paid France $15 million for this land that effectively doubled the size of the United States in 1803.

Ceded to the U.S. by Spain in 1819 for $5 million.