Manifest Destiny Essential Question: Was Westward Expansion and positiveor negative experience for Americans? Why do people move? Is it good or bad to.

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Manifest Destiny Essential Question: Was Westward Expansion and positiveor negative experience for Americans? Why do people move? Is it good or bad to move? Objective: SWBAT use the concept of Manifest Destiny to explain the rationale of Federal policies towards the West. “Our manifest destiny [is] to overspread and posses thewhole of the continent which Providence [God] hasgiven us for the development of the great experiment ofliberty and…self-government.” John O’ Sullivan, United States Magazine and Democratic Review. 1845

Warm-up 1) What do you see in this picture? 2) What do you think it means?

Buffalo & Indians are driven into obscurity… “American Progress” by John Gast, 1872 Lady Liberty “Star of Empire” Carries a schoolbook … …and telegraph wire …as settlers move westward “The tools of progress”

Manifest Destiny Concept Map Rate your current knowledge of the phrase“Manifest Destiny.”Listen to the word, repeat the word.Definition: Listen to the definition.State a definition in your own words.Share with a partner.Record your definition on your paper. Write an analogy for Manifest Destiny.

Manifest Destiny Definition - the belief that America’s destiny was to stretch across continent. This suggested that expansion was not only good but inevitable. Manifest Destiny became a gov’t policy under James K. Polk (11th president) American expansionists – favored U.S. territorial growth – see Texas, New Mexico, and California as targets for American expansion They believed that the west was unoccupied even though Native Americans and Mexican peoples lived there. Rich in resources – water and old Mexican government and economy weak after revolution and not worthy of the land that the USA “needs.”

Manifest Destiny Reading Before: Academic Vocabulary During: Mark your text as you read. After: Look at the Gast painting again. Explain how the artist uses specific images to convince people to move west.

Homework Complete Manifest Destiny Reading activity.