OBJECTIVES: Manifest Destiny Summarize the reasons American settlers headed west during the mid-1800s through quiz and homework. Describe how settlers moving west affected Native Americans through drawing. Identify the westward trails and some of the people who used them though in-class cartography lesson.

Have you ever moved from a community, switched schools, or experienced some major change? Did this give you an opportunity to make a fresh start?

VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny Treaty of Ft. Laramie Santa Fe Trail Oregon Trail Mormons Joseph Smith “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” God-given right of the United States to expand from Atlantic to the Pacific and into Mexico

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VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny Treaty of Ft. Laramie Santa Fe Trail Oregon Trail Mormons Joseph Smith “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” Gave Native Americans control of Central Plains, land north of the Arkansas River to Canada. They promised not to attack settlers and government promised to make annual payments.

Americans Headed West to…

Americans Headed West to… Escape religious persecution

Americans Headed West to… Escape religious persecution Find new markets for commerce

Americans Headed West to… Escape religious persecution Find new markets for commerce Claim land for farming, ranching, and mining

Americans Headed West to… Escape religious persecution Find new markets for commerce Claim land for farming, ranching, and mining Seek employment and escape creditors (Panic of 1837)

Americans Headed West to… Escape religious persecution Find new markets for commerce Claim land for farming, ranching, and mining Seek employment and escape creditors (Panic of 1837) Locate harbors on the Pacific

Americans Headed West to… Escape religious persecution Find new markets for commerce Claim land for farming, ranching, and mining Seek employment and escape creditors (Panic of 1837) Locate harbors on the Pacific Spread the virtues of democracy

VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny Treaty of Ft. Laramie Santa Fe Trail Oregon Trail Mormons Joseph Smith “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” Route from Independence, MO to Santa Fe, NM

VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny Treaty of Ft. Laramie Santa Fe Trail Oregon Trail Mormons Joseph Smith “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” Route from Independence, MO to Oregon Territory

VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny Treaty of Ft. Laramie Santa Fe Trail Oregon Trail Mormons Joseph Smith “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” Religious sect that moved to Utah to escape persecution.

VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny Treaty of Ft. Laramie Santa Fe Trail Oregon Trail Mormons Joseph Smith “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” Mormon leader.

VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny Treaty of Ft. Laramie Santa Fe Trail Oregon Trail Mormons Joseph Smith “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!” Polk’s call to annex Oregon. The number is its northern latitude. They settled on the 49th Parallel

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HOMEWORK: Manifest Destiny What was the concept of manifest destiny? Why did Black Hawk rebel against the United States What were the effects of the U.S. government policies toward Native Americans in the mid-1800s What difficulties did families on the Oregon Trail face'?