1. Three brothers share a family sport: A non-stop marathon The oldest one is fat and short And trudges slowly on The middle brother's tall and slim And keeps a steady pace The youngest runs just like the wind, Speeding through the race "He's young in years, we let him run," The other brothers say "'Cause though he's surely number one, He's second, in a way."

2. Flipped Learning
Fill in the North and South C.1845 row on the America revision grid

3. North and South C.1845

4. Spot the difference
1800 frontier barely advanced beyond the Appalachian, Spain claims most of present day USA.

5. Spot the difference
Key differences: number of states, Indian territory, Spanish states, Got to the Pacific Ocean, Move beyond Mississippi and Appalachian Mountains
Key questions: How might America have acquired this land? Why might have America felt the need to move westward?

6. Mark off in your planner

7. Key Words: Manifest Destiny Moving frontier Great learning:
Good learning:
Describe the …
Great learning:
Explain …
Even better:
Evaluate …
Key Words:
Manifest Destiny
Moving frontier

8. Southern fears of modernisation
It is hard to separate this out from economic difference and legacy of the past, essentially
The South are economically backward by choice.  
They fear that modernisation will destroy there way of life including slavery (mechanisation could remove need for slaves)
They also fear urbanisation followed by mixing of the races.
Who is moving, how they are moving, why they are moving, impact of them moving
Allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers. She brings light from the East into the darkness of the West, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a book that "represents learning and knowledge". The different stages of economic activity of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the evolving forms of transportation

9. American Progress, a painting by John Gast (1872)
Who is moving, how they are moving, why they are moving, impact of them moving
Allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers. She brings light from the East into the darkness of the West, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a book that "represents learning and knowledge". The different stages of economic activity of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the evolving forms of transportation

10. John L. O’Sullivan, “Annexation,” The United States Magazine and Democratic Review 17 (July 1845)
Sheet and answer questions

11. Pull factors Push factors
Read through pp.30-1, and list the economic ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors for moving West
Pull factors
Push factors
Do economic then look at other factors (Manifest Destiny = religious, transport = economic)

12. What was the impact of westward expansion on American culture. pp
Size of America
Federal Government
Tension between the East and West
Democracy in American Politics
Slavery

13. Recall the causes, events and consequences of the Mexican War
Flipped Learning
Recall the causes, events and consequences of the Mexican War P
Causes
Events
Consequences