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Page 6 , Unit 5 Manifest Destiny

Page 6 , Unit 5 Manifest Destiny . Essential Question: How did westward expansion transform the nation? Learning Target: I will be able to discuss the impact of westward expansion on different cultures of the United States Homework: Vocabulary/ finish lesson activity

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Page 6 , Unit 5 Manifest Destiny

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  1. Page 6, Unit 5Manifest Destiny

    Essential Question: How did westward expansion transform the nation? Learning Target: I will be able to discuss the impact of westward expansion on different cultures of the United States Homework: Vocabulary/ finish lesson activity Formative Assessment: Choose one group of people discussed today in class, and describe how their Culture/ future was changed by westward expansion Rubric- 1-4 Scale
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  3. John Jacob Astor: American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War Mountain Men: men hired by eastern companies to trap animals for fur in the Rocky Mountains and other western regions of the U.S. Oregon Trail: 2,000 mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from Missouri to Oregon Santa Fe Trail: important trade trail west from Missouri to New Mexico Mormons: member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Bringham Young: settler of the Western United States; President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877 Manifest Destiny: belief shared by many Americans that the U.S. should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific James K. Polk: 11th President; led U.S. to victory in Mexican American War Vaqueros: Mexican cowboys in the West who tended cattle and horses Californios: Spanish colonists in California in the 1800s Bear Flag Revolt: revolt against Mexico by Americans in California who declared the territory an independent republic Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: treaty that ended the Mexican War, giving the U.S. much of Mexico’s northern territory Gadsden Purchase: U.S. purchase of land from Mexico that included the southern parts of AZ and NM Vocabulary Page I
  4. Activity 1 Read pages 346-349 Fill out information in each box as we read as a group Would you have taken a wagon trail West during this time? Why?
  5. http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/md_an_ideal_or_a_justification.html http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/md_an_ideal_or_a_justification.html How was Manifest Destiny both racist and idealist? Activity 2
  6. Choose one group of people discussed today in class, and describe how their Culture/ future was changed by westward expansion Formative Assessment
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