USHAP Unit 4 Week 3

Agenda: Monday 11/5/12 Objective: Understand how westward expansion promoted both nationalism and sectionalism Content: Federal policies, westward expansion, the ideology of expansion Skills: Primary source analysis, writing Essential question: Why was compromise increasingly difficult to obtain? Agenda: 1) Role of Federal Government in Westward Settlement? 2) The ideology of Manifest Destiny 3) DBQ: Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny

Westward Expansion DBQ

Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement. TASK #1 – Deconstructing the question. Specifically and in your own words describe what the question is asking you to do. Start by circling the directive words. Limit your answer to 2-3 sentences. What are the Directive word(s)? Circle or underline these in the prompt Identify key events, places, and people within the prompt Identify if the prompt is asking for change over time Explain what the prompt is explicitly asking you to do. Write your response in complete sentences. (DO NOT simply restate the question)

The Tasks- Do these in order for every DBQ! TASK #2 – CCP. Read the documents and for each one do a brief CCP. As you do CCP make sure to link your responses to the question. Context Who What When Where Content What the document actually says Point of View Purpose of the document

Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement. Process Context Who What When Where Content What the document actually says Point of View Purpose of the document Document A (Texas) was disintegrated from Mexico in the natural course of events, by a process perfectly legitimate on its own part, blameless on ours; and in which all the censures due to wrong, perfidy and folly, rest on Mexico alone. And possessed as it was by a population which was in truth but a colonial detachment from our own, and which was still bound by myriad ties of the very heart-strings to its old relations, domestic and political, their incorporation into the Union was not only inevitable, but the most natural, right and proper thing in the world— it is only astonishing that there should be any among ourselves to say it nay. Source: John L. O'Sullivan, 1845

Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement. Process Context Who What When Where Content What the document actually says Point of View Purpose of the document Document B Source: “Ridiculous Exhibition or Yankee Noodle Putting His Head in the Mouth of a Lion” Punch, 1846

Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement. Process Context Who What When Where Content What the document actually says Point of View Purpose of the document Document C Oregon is a part of the North American continent, to which, it is confidently affirmed, the title of the United States is the best now in existence. For the grounds on which that title rests I refer you to the correspondence of the late and present Secretary of State with the British plenipotentiary during the negotiation. The British proposition of compromise, which would make the Columbia the line south of 49°, with a trifling addition of detached territory to the United States north of that river, and would leave on the British side two-thirds of the whole Oregon Territory, including the free navigation of the Columbia and all the valuable harbors on the Pacific, can never for a moment be entertained by the United States without an abandonment of their just and dear territorial rights, their own self- respect, and the national honor. Source: President James K. Polk’s Message to Congress, December 2, 1845

Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement. Process Context Who What When Where Content What the document actually says Point of View Purpose of the document Document D Source: “Slave awaits the outcome of the Prize Fight”, circa 1845

Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement. Process Context Who What When Where Content What the document actually says Point of View Purpose of the document Document E Source: Punch Magazine 1847

Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement. Process Context Who What When Where Content What the document actually says Point of View Purpose of the document Document F Source: Anti-Whig Poster, “The only necessary qualification for President”, 1848

The Tasks- Do these in order for every DBQ! TASK #3 – Assembling evidence. – Create a table of possible points of view and various groupings.

The Tasks- Do these in order for every DBQ! TASK #4 – Outside Information What outside information do you have that could help you respond to the prompt? Add this information to your organizational table.

Agenda: Tuesday 11/6/12 Election Day!!! Objective: Understand how westward expansion promoted both nationalism and sectionalism Content: Federal policies, westward expansion, the ideology of expansion Skills: Primary source analysis, writing Essential question: Why was compromise increasingly difficult to obtain? Agenda: Finish DBQ: Manifest Destiny Reminder: Fluency Fact Quiz on Block Day

Why is this kid so excited about election day? 15 th Amendment 1870 Right to vote cannot be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 19 th Amendment 1920 Right to vote cannot be denied on account of sex 24 th Amendment 1964 The right to vote could not be restricted by the use of poll taxes Voting Rights Act of 1965 The right to vote could not be restricted by the use of literacy tests or any other discriminatory practice. 26 th Amendment 1971 The right to vote was reduced to the age of 18 in all states In 2030 Keaton Marie Gabriel will be eligible to vote in her first election

Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement. Process Context Who What When Where Content What the document actually says Point of View Purpose of the document Document D Source: “Slave awaits the outcome of the Prize Fight”, circa 1845

Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement. Process Context Who What When Where Content What the document actually says Point of View Purpose of the document Document E Source: Punch Magazine 1847

Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement. Process Context Who What When Where Content What the document actually says Point of View Purpose of the document Document F Source: Anti-Whig Poster, “The only necessary qualification for President”, 1848

The Tasks- Do these in order for every DBQ! TASK #3 – Assembling evidence. – Create a table of possible points of view and various groupings. Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement.

The Tasks- Do these in order for every DBQ! TASK #4 – Outside Information What outside information do you have that could help you respond to the prompt? Add this information to your organizational table. Prompt: “Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement.

Texas: frontier of exclusion or inclusion? InclusionExclusion

Mexican American War Debate, 1846 On what basis did the Democrats advocate for war? What was the Whig position in response? What was the Liberty Party position in response?

Change in the American Party System Over Time

Create a flow chart for the American Party system as it has evolved from Washington’s Administration to Pierce. Include the following: Party values Timeline Sectional Values Important People Parties: Federalist Anti-Federalist Democratic Republicans Republicans Democrats Whigs Free Soil Liberty