1. Westward expansion Day 8
Westward Expansion#3 due 10:45 p.m.
1. Warm-up 2. American Expansion Notes
MATCH
THE
PRESIDENT
Objective: TLW LEARN ABOUT THE LIFE AND PRESIDENCY OF ANDREW JACKSON
Activity: Have students do the warm up, discuss. The using their packets, they will copy notes over the American Expansion, class discussion.
Materials: pen/pencil, packet
Evaluation: Teacher observation, notes
TEKS: 5FG, 7D, 13AC, 17C, 18B, 22A, 23A
Warm-Up
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
Closed colonization
Nation should be farmers
Indians, Tariff, Bank

2. ON YOUR DESK UNDER YOUR CHAIR
Journal pages 10-11
Pencil
UNDER YOUR CHAIR
Everything else

3. AMERICAN EXPANSION TO THE PACIFIC
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above, Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love, Don't fence me in. Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze, And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees, Send me off forever but I ask you please, Don't fence me in. Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle Underneath the western skies. On my Cayuse, let me wander over yonder Till I see the mountains rise. I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon until I lose my senses And I can't look at hovels and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in.

4. WHAT IS MANIFEST DESTINY?
A belief during the 19th century that the United States had a God given right to expand to the Pacific.
Looking at the map, what problem is created by this belief?
Spain
Britain
U.S.
Britain and Spain controlled the land.

6. ELECTION OF 1844
James K. Polk, close friend of Andrew Jackson, pledged to acquire the Oregon Country and Texas if elected president.
Spain
Britain
U.S.

7. THE OREGON COUNTRY
Wishing to avoid a 3rd war with one another, the United States and Britain signed a treaty establishing the 49th parallel as the border between British Canada and the United States.
Britain
Spain
U.S.

8. British Territory
49o 45
U.S. Territory 45 40 40 35 35 30 30

9. TEXAS What nation owned Texas prior to 1836?
Why did Texas declare independence?
Why did the United States NOT accept Texas into the Union after the Texas Revolution?
Mexico
1. Mexico forced Texans to pay taxes
2. Mexico sent troops to Texas to enforce Mexican laws.
Slave states would outnumber free states
It feared a war with Mexico.

10. THE WAR AGAINST MEXICO
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11. CAUSES OF THE WAR Texas was annexed (added) into the U.S. in 1845.
The U.S. claimed the Rio Grande River as the border, Mexico claimed the Nueces River as the border.

13. ACTIONS DURING THE WAR
The United States launched an attack upon California, New Mexico, and a land and naval invasion of interior Mexico in 1846.
By 1848, Mexico was conquered and occupied by US forces.
U.S. invasion of Mexico.

14. THE END OF THE WAR
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed to end the Mexican War.
Mexico was forced to relinquish (give up) all claims to Texas and surrendered one half of its land to the United States in exchange for $15,000,000.

16. THE GADSDEN PURCHASE
A few years after the war, the US purchased the small strip of land that today is southern Arizona & New Mexico.
Why?
To build a transcontinental railroad.

17. CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
In the year 1849, gold was discovered in northern California.
What are the gold miners called?
In 1850, California asked to enter the Union.
49ers

18. Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah
The Mormons, led by Brigham Young, established communities near the Great Salt Lake in present day Utah.
Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah

19. TRAILS
Which direction were the travelers going?
West

20. MANIFEST DESTINY- 1872 painting
What is the message of the painting?
God has blessed the idea of Manifest Destiny.

21. MANIFEST DESTINY- Modern Version
Name two modern symbols you recognize in the painting.