Roots of Manifest Destiny

Take a page in your spiral & create this chart using the entire page.

John O’Sullivan

Political

Economic

Social

Warm-Up for 1/29

Orderly procedure for:

What does it say about establishing territories?

What does it say about applying for statehood?

What are the requirements for statehood?

Northwest Ordinance

Instructions:1. Copy the Northwest Ordinance graphic.2. Answer the graphic with the handout.

John O’Sullivan

founder and editor of United States Magazine & Democratic Review

Suggest add Texas to the U.S.A. Recommend look further to

California as a site for future expansion

Manifest Destiny: captures the belief of the U.S. government and its citizens that it was the nation’s destiny, or fate, to expand westward from sea to sea.

https://wikis.nyu.edu/ek6/modernamerica/uploads/Imperialism.ManifestDestiny/new5.jpg

Political Expansion of our nation’s

borders/territory Oregon Territory, 54´40° or

Fight James K. Polk and the

Election of 1844 Expansion of slavery—fueled

sectional tensions that led to the Civil War

Land ownership tied to political power & self-rule

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/smithson/polk.jpg

http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/walter.sargent/public.www/web%20103/map%20Western%20territories%201840.jpg

Economic New land for farmers,

had outgrown the eastern seaboard

Economic depressions New trade routes and

markets Inexpensive (or free) land New opportunities for

commerce

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/national_parks/santa_fe_trail94.jpg

Social

Remove Native Americans

Refuge for persecuted groups (Mormons)

Part of nationalism

http://www.thefurtrapper.com/images/Oregon%20Mormon%20Trail.jpg

Result

4,000,000 Americans moved to western territories between 1820 & 1850

http://www.tms.riverview.wednet.edu/lrc/westward%20movement.htm

http://www.radford.edu/~sbisset/westward.html

Warm-Up for 1/30: Answer in complete sentences

3. Where are they headed?

4. What or who do you think the floating angel represents?

5. What does this painting tell us about early westward movement?

1.Who can you identify in this painting?

2. What are the characters doing in this painting?

http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/images/gast-pg.jpg

Wednesday’s Lesson: Geography Impacts Manifest Destiny

Fanny Palmer: “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” (1868)

http://www.peterpappas.com/docs/lesson8/8-7.htm

Albert Bierstadt, “Emigrants Crossing the Plains” - 1866

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/emigrants-crossing-the-plains-currier-and-ives.html