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
Fanny Palmer: “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” (1868)
http://www.peterpappas.com/docs/lesson8/8-7.htm