1. “Manifest Destiny” handout
Answer these questions at the top of page in your notes:
(1) Summarize, what is Manifest Destiny?
(2) What are the examples mentioned in the handout regarding historical examples of Manifest Destiny?
(3) What ideas are presented in the painting “American Progress” (1872) by John Gast?
(4) How does the Mexican Cession, and other territorial expansion for that matter, contribute to the national tensions that would lead to the Civil War?

2. Conveys “Manifest Destiny”
The painting is called “American Progress” by John Gast

3. In response to video: “The west – Episode Two: Empire upon the Trails” (5:00 – 16:00), answer following questions in your notebooks:
What were the motivations of the Mountain Men
coming to the American West?
(2) Describe the lifestyles of the Mountain Men, and what usually happened at the yearly rendezvous?
(3) What does Lone Dog’s Winter Count depict?
(4) What does the video present regarding the Lakota peoples and their connection to the Black Hills?

4. Lone Dog’s Winter Count
High Dog’s Winter Count
Sam Kills Two

5. Traditional Lakota Lands
Native American Tribes w/ ties to Black Hills …
Oceti Sakowin / Seven Council Fires …
Origin of “Sioux” name …
Originated in the Black Hills?
Migration History …

6. Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding
1836, first white women to cross the Continental Divide.
Established a medical / religions mission to Nez Perce.
1847, were murdered.

7. Missouri Compromise (1820)
Maine becomes a
free state
(2) Missouri becomes a slave state
(3) Slavery prohibited north of 36 d. 30’
(4) Slavery allowed into Arkansas Territory south of 36 d. 30’

8. Mexican-American War, 1846-48
- U.S. decision to annex Texas in 1845 brings war.
- U.S. provokes war with Mexico.

9. Mexican Cession (1848) (Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo)
Increased the size of the United States w/ Mexican Cession by 1/3.
Modern states of Utah, Nevada, and California and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming
Wilmot Proviso – proposed legislation to ban slavery from “Mexican Cession”; proposed in 1846, ‘47, & ‘48

10. “Popular Sovereignty”
This is the idea that the people of a territory will vote by popular majority whether they want to allow slavery.

11. of 1850 Compromise (1) Texas surrenders territorial claims
(2) California a free state
(3) Slavery not restricted in Mexican Cession, so
“popular sovereignty” in Utah and New Mexico territories
(4) Slave trade banned in Washington D.C.
(5) Fugitive Slave Act