Bellringer: EOCT Review Questions

6. Which of the following regions would have featured the MOST diversity during the late 1600s and early 1700s? a. New England c. South Carolina b. New York d. Jamestown

b. Describe the westward growth of the United States; include the emerging concept of Manifest Destiny.

Opening:

Write down 5 details that stand out to you in this painting. What is the message of this painting?

Manifest Destiny
John

L OSullivan, newspaper editor

Away, away with all these cobweb tissues of rights of discovery, exploration, settlement, contiguity.Our claim is by the right of our 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 federative self government entrusted to us.Oregon can never be to England anything but a mere hunting ground for furs and peltriesIn our hands it must fast fill in with a population destined to establish a noble young empire

Effects of Western Expansion

Now

that more land in the western areas of the continent belonged to America (Louisiana Purchase), some of those areas were populated enough and were ready to become a state
What

law (first established in the Articles of Confederation) established the procedure for adding new land into the Union?

Manifest Destiny
The

idea that God wanted the Americans to settle the west Several inventions, such as the mechanical reaper and the steel plow, opened up the Great Plains to farmers

Manifest Destiny
Americans

headed west for 3 main reason: 1 - the desire to own their own land (Homestead Act) 2- the discovery of gold and other valuable resources (California Gold Rush) 3- the belief that the US was supposed to stretch across North America (Manifest Destiny)

Manifest Destiny
Mormons:

(a religious group) Settled in Utah in hopes of finding religious freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5

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In

(watch only 1st 4 min..the rest is music)

the 1820s, Americans began to settle in Texas, which was owned by Mexico, conflicts would lead to a war with Mexico

Manifest Destiny
1800: 387,000 American settlers beyond Appalachian Mtns.

1820: 2.4 million settlers What does Manifest Destiny mean?

God had given Americans the right to settle

from coast to coast on the American Continent

Oregon Trail

Trails West
1.Oregon Trail

2.Californi a Trail
3.Mormon Trail 4.Southern Trail

Closing

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