Use 2 slots Titles = Who is “us?” Slot 1…What characteristics come to mind when you think of (today) –The USA –American Spirit/Dream –Americans What stories have you learned about so far that reinforce these characteristics? Slot 2…What characteristics do you think will be formed in the USA from Westward Expansion? Are they still around?

Analyze the ESP characteristics created in the USA during Westward Expansion

Don’t underestimate these next 40 years… –Why are they a big deal? –What will be the big topics the USA will tackle? –Think of some Mr. B analogies. Which will develop or change?

Why were Americans more mobile in the early 1800s than Europeans? What are the effects of a being a mobile society?

Timeframe? –When does it start & end? What fuels expansion? –Think ESP

Here are the figures… –1780 = 2.7 million –1800 = 5.2 million –1820 = 9.4 million –1830 = 12 million What do you notice? What does this mean about/for the USA and society? –BTW…these numbers grew without major immigration taking place

Texas Independence Mexican War (1846) California (Gold) Oregon

Title = Painting What is this painting describing? What is the theme/mood of it?

Means “Obvious and Undeniable Fate” –John L. O’Sullivan wrote the phrase in 1845 It was the nation’s “manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.” –Thoughts on the quote? Paraphrase it

Westward the course of empire takes its way (1861) By Emanuel Leutze

Belief that works along Manifest Destiny Belief that the USA will encompass all of North Amer Started… after Florida was taken in 1819 from Spain