1. What is an allegory?
the use of characters, pictures, symbols or events to represent ideas or principles in a story

2. Example: The Wizard of Oz Story about the Progressive Era – late 1800’s early 1900’s
President
common man
industrial worker
gold standard
natural disasters and bankers and capitalists
Wizard
Dorothy
Tinman
Yellow brick road
Witches

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4. Allegorical Painting Symbolism
Railroads and telegraph wires – innovation/technology
Everything is moving east to west – western expansion
Diversity – train, Oregon Trail wagon train, mail stagecoach, farmers, miners, industrialized society, settlements
The woman’s dress may symbolize an angelic figure. It may also be Greek garb (toga) that represents education (also symbolized by the school book she is holding).
Light clouds in the east (enlightened and industrialized society)
Dark clouds in the west (unknown, negative effects – buffalo and Native Americans)

5. Manifest Destiny Manifest = obvious, embedded into
Destiny = future fate, the way it’s going to be
What did Americans consider to be their “obvious fate” in the early 1800’s?

6. Why does this sound familiar?
“…he believed that America had a duty to extend the blessings of democracy to new lands and peoples.”
Why does this sound familiar?

7. Louisiana Purchase (219-222 - NC)
Lewis and Clark ( NC) ( – History Alive)
Trail of Tears ( NC)
Oregon Trail ( – History Alive)
Manifest Destiny (201 – History Alive)
Gold Rush ( – History Alive)
Transcontinental Railroad ( NC) ( – HA)
Homestead Act ( – NC) (328 – HA)
Mexican-American War and Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (304; 320 NC) ( ; HA)

8. Louisiana Purchase
In 1803, President Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million.
Doubled the size of the United States and opened up the west for settlement.

9. Lewis and Clark
William Clark and Meriwether Lewis led an expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory ( ).
The explorers drew maps, established relations with natives and brought back information about plant and animal life that would encourage western settlement. Sacagewea was a famous native that helped them travel and survive.

10. Trail of Tears
The forced removal of thousands of Native Americans by the US government to what is now known as Oklahoma from
The removal resulted from the desire of Americans to expand west and search for gold.

11. Oregon Trail
Thousands of settlers would move across the Oregon Trail beginning with the Great Migration in 1843.
The trail created a direct and easy route into the northwest.

12. Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is term referring to the “obvious fate” that the United States should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The phrase gave Americans motive and pride that it was their destiny to expand into the west, spreading their faith, culture, technology, and democracy.

13. California Gold Rush
When gold was discovered in 1849, thousands of Americans and immigrants “rushed” to the west.
So many people migrated to the region that California became the first state in the west and a land of diversity and economic opportunity.

14. Transcontinental Railroad
The transportation innovation would increase the number of citizens moving west, spark new land claims, increase the number of trains being built, and influence the transporting of goods and people faster, cheaper, and easier.
In 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, and tasked them with building a transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west. It took seven years before the two railroads met at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869.

15. Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War ( ) was a result of the President Polk’s attitude toward “manifest destiny”.
It influenced western expansion by obtaining new land from Texas to California as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

16. Homestead Act
The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land in exchange for a small fee and the promise of five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
It encouraged homesteaders to move west for cheap land and financial opportunity.

17. School House Rock - Elbow Room