1. 8Y 09-09-2016 Friday Unit 1 Launch US Expansion
Objective: Know the goals of our first History unit of the year.
Agenda:
Prayer
Take a few minutes to finish up with your partners in talking about your website.
Presentations and discussion: How to tell if a website is credible.
Unit 1 Learning Goals and Topics
Quiz Bowl and Student Council Announcements

2. Presentations
Is your internet source credible? How do you know?

3. Topics of Unit 1: U.S. Expansion
Part I Territorial Expansion:
Louisiana Purchase
Manifest Destiny
Texas Independence and Annexation
Mexican American War
California Gold Rush
Minnesota Statehood
Part II Technology and Reform:
Advances in transportation
Advances in factories
Second Great Awakening
Abolition
Women’s Rights Movement
Labor and Education Reform Movements
Part III: Relations with Native Americans:
Native American Populations before and after U.S. territorial expansion
Diplomatic relationship with Native Americans during expansion and what it’s like today (especially with Anishinaabe and Dakota of Minnesota)
Main Learning Objective: Explain the causes, processes, and impact of United States territorial expansion.

5. How do you think territorial expansion impacted the United States during the early 1800s?
Take 2-3 minutes to write down your thoughts in your notebooks. P – E – R – S – I – G – A –

6. How do you think territorial expansion impacted the United States during the early 1800s?
Take 2-3 minutes to write down your thoughts in your notebooks. P – the government will get bigger (more power and more people working in the government), political and social division E – higher taxes to pay for land, more businesses/new business for more people, more food (animals and crops) R – more different religions from the new people S – less protection -> more land but not more soldiers, need protection from Natives/ conflict, population increase because more people will move from other countries for land and there are people in the new lands already I – more schools G – gained land from coast to coast A – different cultures will enrich our artistic traditions, different foods – more diversity