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Use 2 slots Titles = Who is “us?”

Opening Question. Use 2 slots Titles = Who is “us?” Slot 1…What characteristics come to mind when you think of (today) The USA American Spirit/Dream Americans What stories have you learned about so far that reinforce these characteristics?

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Use 2 slots Titles = Who is “us?”

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  1. Opening Question • Use 2 slots • Titles = Who is “us?” • Slot 1…What characteristics come to mind when you think of (today) • The USA • American Spirit/Dream • Americans • What stories have you learned about so far that reinforce these characteristics? • Slot 2…What characteristics do you think will be formed in the USA from Westward Expansion? Are they still around?

  2. Day 78-80 Objectives Analyze the ESP characteristics created in the USA during Westward Expansion

  3. Westward Expansion

  4. 1. 1820-1860 The USA is Changing • Don’t underestimate these next 40 years… • Why are they a big deal? • What will be the big topics the USA will tackle? • Think of some Mr. B analogies. Which will develop or change?

  5. USA is a continental country

  6. Mobile America • Why were Americans more mobile in the early 1800s than Europeans? • What are the effects of a being a mobile society?

  7. 2. Westward Expansion • Timeframe? • When does it start & end? • What fuels expansion? • Think ESP

  8. USA’s Population Boom • Here are the figures… • 1780 = 2.7 million • 1800 = 5.2 million • 1820 = 9.4 million • 1830 = 12 million • What do you notice? • What does this mean about/for the USA and society? • BTW…these numbers grew without major immigration taking place

  9. 3. Four Expansion Stories • Texas Independence • Mexican War (1846) • California (Gold) • Oregon

  10. Title = Painting • What is this painting describing? What is the theme/mood of it? Another OQ

  11. Means “Obvious and Undeniable Fate” • John L. O’Sullivan wrote the phrase in 1845 • It was the nation’s “manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.” • Thoughts on the quote? Paraphrase it

  12. Manifest Destiny

  13. Westward the course of empire takes its way (1861) • By Emanuel Leutze

  14. Continentalism • Belief that works along Manifest Destiny • Belief that the USA will encompass all of NorthAmer • Started… after Florida was taken in 1819 from Spain

  15. Westward Expansion What If's...

  16. Manifest Destiny’s Legacy?

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