1. Westward Expansion

2. Bell Ringer 11/30- TAKE OUT A SHEET OF PAPER. ON A SHEET OF YOUR OWN PAPER: If you were given the opportunity to double the size of your house for a cheap price, would you take it? GRAB A BOOK!

3. Objective/Agenda Identify reasons for Westward Expansion Agenda: Bell ringer/new unit sheet Notes/Reading pg 208-209 in book with questions (finish tomorrow

4. Failed Constitution? See me after school today in 236.

5. Reasons for going west Needed more land- population was doubling every 25 years! Industrialization- railroads, steel, etc.

6. Reasons for going west Manifest Destiny The belief that it was destiny for the United States to control the entire continent

7. Thomas Jefferson and westward expansion 3 rd President of USA (1801-1809) Plantation owner Believed people should be allowed to own land (whites)

8. Jefferson and the west, cont. Louisiana Purchase (1803) Bought “Louisiana Territory” from France for $15 million Doubled the size of the USA

9. Louisiana Purchase

11. Reading pg. 208-209: Read and create questions As you read, think about what you do when you read. Do you: Think/ask questions in your head? Underline/highlight/annotate? Look up words you don’t know? Research more info on what you are reading? Let’s make a list as we go along.

12. Westward Expansion Begins Lewis and Clark Sent on 2 year trip to reach the Pacific Ocean by river Were asked to map their route by Pres. Jefferson for future explorers to follow Sacagawea Native American woman Guide and interpreter for Lewis and Clark Carried her infant son on her back the entire trip