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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
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b. Describe the westward growth of the
United States; include the emerging
concept of Manifest Destiny.
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Write down 5 details that stand out to you in this painting.
What is the message of this painting?
Opening:
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Manifest Destiny
John L OSullivan, newspaper editor
Away, away with all these cobweb tissues of rightsof discovery, exploration, settlement, contiguity.Our claim
is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and topossess the whole of the continent which Providence hasgiven us for the development of the great experiment ofliberty and federative self government entrusted tous.Oregon can never be to England anything but a mere
hunting ground for furs and peltriesIn our hands it mustfast fill in with a population destined to establish a nobleyoung empire
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Effects of Western Expansion
Now that more land in the western areas of thecontinent belonged to America (LouisianaPurchase), some of those areas were populated
enough and were ready to become a state
What law (first established in the Articles ofConfederation) established the procedure foradding new land into the Union?
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Manifest DestinyThe idea that God wanted the Americans tosettle the west
Several inventions, such as the mechanical
reaper and the steel plow, opened up theGreat Plains to farmers
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Manifest DestinyAmericans 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)
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Manifest DestinyMormons: (a religious group) Settled inUtah in hopes of finding religious freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=related(watch only 1st 4 min..the rest is music)
In the 1820s, Americans began to settle in
Texas, which was owned by Mexico,conflicts would lead to a war with Mexico
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=related7/27/2019 Manifest Destiny (1)
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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 settlefrom coast to coast on the American Continent
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Oregon Trail
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Trails West
1.OregonTrail
2.Californi
a Trail
3.Mormon
Trail
4.SouthernTrail
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Closing
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