1. Bell ringer Tuesday November 28th : Use notes from yesterday (p
Bell ringer Tuesday November 28th : Use notes from yesterday (p. 45) for help!
1) What does the word ABOLITION mean?
2) Give one example of a male abolitionist.
3) Give one example of a female abolitionist.
4) Name one detail about life for slaves that you remember.
5) Name one WAY (Tactic) slaves used to try to resist slavery.

2. Date
Topic
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11/28
Manifest Destiny Notes 46

3. Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion
Focus Questions: Why did the U.S. want to expand westward in the early 1800s and what challenges resulted from this expansion?

4. Prelude to what we are studying today– be sure to watch this, it is pretty funny.
Mrs. Wilson is in a rap video

6. Manifest Destiny
A belief shared by many Americans in the mid 1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
President Polk believed it was our manifest destiny, or “obvious fate” to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in order to spread democracy.

7. The Idea of Manifest Destiny
Why did Expansionists think America should get more land?
1) Mexicans do not deserve to keep lands that America needs for settlement.
2) God wants the United States to own all of North America
What do you think about this?
Manifest: obvious; clear; plain
Destiny: an event that will inevitably happen in the future

8. Reasons Americans Moved West in the mid 1800s:
More land available
Spread Democracy
God Wants them to

9. Western Trails Video
Why might traveling on the Oregon Trail be difficult?

10. The Oregon Dispute: 54’ 40º or Fight!
James K Polk’s Campaign Slogan in election of 1844: 54’40 or fight!
British and Americans jointly occupy lands
In boundary established at 54’50 between U.S. and Canada
Why is the slogan 54’40 or fight?

11. Western Expansion Art Created by the Hudson River School
Purpose: to show life out west as peaceful, encourage people to move there.

12. Image Analysis Activity

13. Texas: 1830s Stephen Austin In 1821, Texas was a part of Mexico.
Stephen Austin was an empresario = agent to bring settlers to Texas.
Stephen Austin brought the first 300 families to Texas - known as the Old Three Hundred.
By 1830, 25,000 Americans were living in Texas. They were required to become Mexican citizens and become Catholic.
The Americans had to follow Mexican law.
When Americans complained, Mexico closed Texas to further American immigration.
Stephen Austin

14. Texas Revolution:
After Mexico closed Texas to Americans, Stephen Austin went to negotiate with the Mexican leader, Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Austin was jailed, and the Texans revolted.
In February 23- March 6, 1836, Mexico attacked the Texans at the Alamo. This 13-day siege resulted in the killing of all the Americans (except some women, children and slaves).
In April, the Mexican army massacred the Texan rebels at Goliad.
After the Alamo and Goliad, Sam Houston surprise attacked Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. Slogan: “Remember the Alamo!”
Texas won its independence.
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

15. Texas Statehood: 1845
Santa Anna was captured and forced to sign a treaty giving Texas its independence.
Texas became an independent nation in called the Lone Star Republic.
Sam Houston became President.
Annexation of Texas was delayed:
Worry that adding Texas as a slave state would upset the balance between free and slave states
Fear that annexing Texas would lead to war with Mexico
Texas joined the U.S. and became the 28th state in 1845.
Sam Houston

16. Manifest Destiny Map
You need the following colors: yellow, orange, red, blue, brown, pink and green
You need a red textbook pg. 295 and your notes from today

17. Manifest Destiny Who Am I?
Complete the WHERE am I? and the WHO am I? Section on the back of your map.