Review How did the following events help to form an American Identity? French and Indian War: Proclamation line of 1763: The Great Awakening: Test THURSDAY
UNIT 2: FACTORS THAT LED TO EXPLORATION LESSON 2.5:ENLIGHTENMENT TO MANIFEST DESTINY
EQ How has Manifest Destiny impacted American history?
Frayer Model: Manifest Destiny
MANIFEST DESTINY
Activating TURN TO PAGE 255 IN THE TEXT. STUDY “PRIMARY SOURCE: THE IDEA OF MANIFEST DESTINY” WHAT SYMBOLIZES PROGRESS IN THE PAINTING? WHY IS THE LEFT PORTION OF THE PAINTING DARKER THAN THE RIGHT? FOR WHAT DOES O’SULLIVAN SAY THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN CHOSEN?
THE ENLIGHTENMENT: THE BACKBONE OF WHO WE ARE INSPIRED BY PHILOSOPHERS OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES SCIENTIFIC THINKING REPLACES SUPERSTITION AND FEAR PEOPLE HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT HUMAN REASON CAN SOLVE SOCIAL PROBLEMS THE INDIVIDUAL BECOMES MORE IMPORTANT AS PEOPLE USE THEIR OWN ABILITY TO REASON AND JUDGE COLONIAL LEADERS USE ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS TO JUSTIFY WAR AND WRITE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. THE ENLIGHTENMENT WOULD ALSO HEAVILY INFLUENCE THE US CONSTITUTION AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS!
The Enlightenment. Pg 45-46 How did each of the following impact the Enlightnment? John Locke: Rousseau: Montesquieu:
AP 1: The Enlightenment 5 words What 5 words would you use to describe the enlightenment? Explain and justify your responses.
TREATY OF PARIS (1783): FREEDOM Acknowledging the United States to be a free, sovereign and independent nation Historians have often commented that the treaty was very generous to the United States in terms of greatly enlarged boundaries, which came at the expense of the Indian allies of the British.
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE NAPOLEON SELLS THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY TO THE UNITED STATES TO FUND HIS CONQUEST OF EUROPE
LEWIS AND CLARKE MERIWETHER LEWIS AND WILLIAM CLARKE CHOSEN TO FIND ROUTE TO PACIFIC OCEAN. SURVIVAL DEPENDED ON KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR GUIDE, SACAGAWEA.
AP 2 Explain the importance of each of the following in regard to expansion. 1) Treaty of Paris 2) Louisiana Purchase 3) Lewis and Clarke
FARMING NEW LANDS MANY AMERICANS MOVED WEST FOR THE CHANCE TO OWN THEIR OWN LAND HOWEVER, FARMING WAS MADE DIFFICULT DUE TO TERRAIN IN 1837 JOHN DEERE ENGINEERED A PLOW THAT WOULD CUT LABOR IN HALF CYRUS MCCORMICK’S REAPER (1834) ALLOWED FARMERS TO HARVEST FAR MORE GRAIN THESE INVENTIONS CONTRIBUTED TO THE SUCCESS OF WESTWARD EXPANSION!
WESTWARD MIGRATION TERRAIN FROM EDGE OF FRONTIER TO THE PACIFIC WAS DIFFICULT. MEN LIKE KIT CARSON JEDIDIAH SMITH, AND DANIEL BOONE HAD MADE A LIVING TRAPPING BEAVER AND SELLING FURS BY 1840’S, MOUNTAIN MEN LIKE CARSON HAD CARVED OUT SEVERAL EAST-WEST TRAILS = THE OREGON TRAIL
MANIFEST DESTINY REASONS FOR HEADING WEST: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (MORMONS) CHANCE TO OWN LAND ADVENTURE/WEALTH IDEA OF MANIFEST DESTINY: BELIEF THAT GOD HAD GIVEN ENTIRE CONTINENT TO AMERICA AND WAS OUR DESTINY TO SETTLE WESTERN LANDS, BRING DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS WITH US!
OVERLANDERS EMIGRANTS MADE THEIR JOURNEY IN GROUPS OF COVERED WAGONS CALLED WAGON TRAINS. THESE “OVERLANDERS” FOUND THEIR WAY USING GUIDE BOOKS SOME PARTIES ENDED IN DISASTER (DONNER PARTY)
AP 3: Manifest Destiny
Activity Show clip from “WESTWARD” ATSU 3- 3 things you found out 2 – 2 interesting things 1 = question you have
Learning Log IN YOUR JOURNAL, SUMMARIZE WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED TODAY. HOW DID THE ENLIGHTENMENT, TREATY OF PARIS, the LOUISIANA , and MANIFEST DESTINY IMPACT AMERICAN EXPANSION?