1. Westward Expansion

2. On your sheet of paper, copy the following:
3 reasons why we went west: 1) 2) 3)
Manifest Destiny:
How does Manifest Destiny relate to nationalism?
3 internal improvements we used to get west:

3. Why go west? Most Americans wanted to own their own land! Gold!
Other natural resources!
Spread religion
It’s natural for us!
The US is destined to stretch across North America

4. Manifest Destiny People began to believe:
It was the obvious fate of the United States to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
We should literally expand “from sea to shining sea”

5. American Progress

6. How does Manifest Destiny relate to nationalism?
Americans believed we were superior to other nations
Why?  Most Americans (at that time) shared the Protestant religion, language, ancestry, and culture
It was our duty to expand all of these to the Pacific Ocean

7. Immigration West
Between 1840 and 1860, more than 250,000 people made the trek westward.

8. How did we get there? Trails Use of internal improvements Wagon Trains
Oregon Trail
Mormon Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Use of internal improvements
Canals
Roads / Turnpikes
Wagon Trains

9. Trails to the West

10. The Oregon Trail

11. Life Out West
Hard!!!
Mother Nature: droughts, floods, blizzards, insects
Isolated
Native American attacks
Other examples???

12. Advertisement
Your group needs to create a poster advertising the advantages or disadvantages of your topic much like you would advertise a product or use a public awareness campaign to get people to stop using a product.
The following topics will be the basis of the posters:
Advantages of pursuing Manifest Destiny / Disadvantages of pursuing Manifest Destiny
Advantages of the cotton gin / Disadvantages of the cotton gin
Reasons to fight in the War of 1812 / Reasons not to fight in the War of 1812
Reasons to support the Monroe Doctrine / Reasons to oppose the Monroe Doctrine
Reasons to move west / Reasons one should not move west

13. Let’s see what we’ve learned today!
On a sheet of paper (which you will turn in), answer the following:
3 reasons why Americans moved west
2 obstacles they encountered
1 belief Americans held about Manifest Destiny
Put them in the green tray in front of Ms. McNeal’s desk when you are finished.