1. OBJECTIVES: Manifest Destiny
Summarize the reasons American settlers headed west during the mid-1800s through quiz and homework.
Describe how settlers moving west affected Native Americans through drawing.
Identify the westward trails and some of the people who used them though in-class cartography lesson.

2. Have you ever moved from a community, switched schools, or experienced some major change? Did this give you an opportunity to make a fresh start?

3. VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Ft. Laramie
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail
Mormons
Joseph Smith
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
God-given right of the United States to expand from Atlantic to the Pacific and into Mexico

4. Manifest Destiny's Child

5. VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Ft. Laramie
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail
Mormons
Joseph Smith
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
Gave Native Americans control of Central Plains, land north of the Arkansas River to Canada. They promised not to attack settlers and government promised to make annual payments.

6. Americans Headed West to…

7. Americans Headed West to…
Escape religious persecution

8. Americans Headed West to…
Escape religious persecution
Find new markets for commerce

9. Americans Headed West to…
Escape religious persecution
Find new markets for commerce
Claim land for farming, ranching, and mining

10. Americans Headed West to…
Escape religious persecution
Find new markets for commerce
Claim land for farming, ranching, and mining
Seek employment and escape creditors (Panic of 1837)

11. Americans Headed West to…
Escape religious persecution
Find new markets for commerce
Claim land for farming, ranching, and mining
Seek employment and escape creditors (Panic of 1837)
Locate harbors on the Pacific

12. Americans Headed West to…
Escape religious persecution
Find new markets for commerce
Claim land for farming, ranching, and mining
Seek employment and escape creditors (Panic of 1837)
Locate harbors on the Pacific
Spread the virtues of democracy

13. VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Ft. Laramie
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail
Mormons
Joseph Smith
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
Route from Independence, MO to Santa Fe, NM

15. VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Ft. Laramie
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail
Mormons
Joseph Smith
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
Route from Independence, MO to Oregon Territory

17. VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Ft. Laramie
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail
Mormons
Joseph Smith
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
Religious sect that moved to Utah to escape persecution.

19. VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Ft. Laramie
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail
Mormons
Joseph Smith
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
Mormon leader.

21. VOCABULARY: Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Ft. Laramie
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail
Mormons
Joseph Smith
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
Polk’s call to annex Oregon. The number is its northern latitude. They settled on the 49th Parallel

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24. HOMEWORK: Manifest Destiny
What was the concept of manifest destiny?
Why did Black Hawk rebel against the United States
What were the effects of the U.S. government policies toward Native Americans in the mid-1800s
What difficulties did families on the Oregon Trail face'?