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Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny. Essential Question: Was Westward Expansion and positive or negative experience for Americans? Why do people move? Is it good or bad to move? Objective: SWBAT use the concept of Manifest Destiny to explain the rationale of Federal policies towards the West.

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Manifest Destiny

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  1. Manifest Destiny • Essential Question: Was Westward Expansion and positive or negative experience for Americans? • Why do people move? • Is it good or bad to move? • Objective: SWBAT use the concept of Manifest Destiny to explain the rationale of Federal policies towards the West. • “Our manifest destiny [is] to overspread and posses the whole of the continent which Providence [God] has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and…self-government.” • John O’ Sullivan, United States Magazine and Democratic Review. 1845

  2. Warm-up • What do you see in this picture? • What do you think it means?

  3. Lady Liberty “American Progress” by John Gast, 1872 “Star of Empire” Carries a schoolbook… …and telegraph wire Buffalo & Indians are driven into obscurity… “The tools of progress” …as settlers move westward

  4. Manifest Destiny Concept Map • Rate your current knowledge of the phrase “Manifest Destiny.” • Listen to the word, repeat the word. • Definition: • Listen to the definition. • State a definition in your own words. • Share with a partner. • Record your definition on your paper. • Write an analogy for Manifest Destiny.

  5. Manifest Destiny • Definition - the belief that America’s destiny was to stretch across continent. • This suggested that expansion was not only good but inevitable. • Manifest Destiny became a gov’t policy under James K. Polk (11th president) • American expansionists – favored U.S. territorial growth – see Texas, New Mexico, and California as targets for American expansion • They believed that the west was unoccupied even though Native Americans and Mexican peoples lived there. • Rich in resources – water and old • Mexican government and economy weak after revolution and not worthy of the land that the USA “needs.”

  6. Manifest Destiny Reading • Before: Academic Vocabulary • During: • Mark your text as you read. • After: • Look at the Gast painting again. • Explain how the artist uses specific images to convince people to move west.

  7. Homework • Complete Manifest Destiny Reading activity.

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