1. Page 6, Unit 5 Manifest Destiny ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HOW DID WESTWARD EXPANSION TRANSFORM THE NATION? LEARNING TARGET: I WILL BE ABLE TO DISCUSS THE IMPACT OF WESTWARD EXPANSION ON DIFFERENT CULTURES OF THE UNITED STATES HOMEWORK: VOCABULARY/ FINISH LESSON ACTIVITY FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: CHOOSE ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE DISCUSSED TODAY IN CLASS, AND DESCRIBE HOW THEIR CULTURE/ FUTURE WAS CHANGED BY WESTWARD EXPANSION RUBRIC- 1-4 SCALE

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3. Vocabulary Page I John Jacob Astor: American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War Mountain Men: men hired by eastern companies to trap animals for fur in the Rocky Mountains and other western regions of the U.S. Oregon Trail: 2,000 mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from Missouri to Oregon Santa Fe Trail: important trade trail west from Missouri to New Mexico Mormons: member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Bringham Young: settler of the Western United States; President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877 Manifest Destiny: belief shared by many Americans that the U.S. should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific James K. Polk: 11 th President; led U.S. to victory in Mexican American War Vaqueros: Mexican cowboys in the West who tended cattle and horses Californios: Spanish colonists in California in the 1800s Bear Flag Revolt: revolt against Mexico by Americans in California who declared the territory an independent republic Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: treaty that ended the Mexican War, giving the U.S. much of Mexico’s northern territory Gadsden Purchase: U.S. purchase of land from Mexico that included the southern parts of AZ and NM

4. Activity 1 Reasons to migrate west California/ Oregon Trails Santa Fe Trail Challenges they faced The Mormons  Read pages 346-349  Fill out information in each box as we read as a group  Would you have taken a wagon trail West during this time? Why?

5. Activity 2  http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/m d_an_ideal_or_a_justification.html http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/m d_an_ideal_or_a_justification.html  How was Manifest Destiny both racist and idealist?

6. Formative Assessment  Choose one group of people discussed today in class, and describe how their Culture/ future was changed by westward expansion