1. UNIT 2: FACTORS THAT LED TO EXPLORATION
LESSON 2.5:ENLIGHTENMENT TO MANIFEST DESTINY

2. MANIFEST DESTINY

3. focus How did the following events help to form an American Identity?
French and Indian War:
Proclamation line of 1763:
The Great Awakening:
Test on Wednesday…..

4. Activating
TURN TO PAGE 255 IN THE TEXT. STUDY “PRIMARY SOURCE: THE IDEA OF MANIFEST DESTINY”
WHAT SYMBOLIZES PROGRESS IN THE PAINTING? WHY IS THE LEFT PORTION OF THE PAINTING DARKER THAN THE RIGHT?
FOR WHAT DOES O’SULLIVAN SAY THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN CHOSEN?

5. Frayer Model: Manifest Destiny

6. THE ENLIGHTENMENT: THE BACKBONE OF WHO WE ARE
INSPIRED BY PHILOSOPHERS OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES
SCIENTIFIC THINKING REPLACES SUPERSTITION AND FEAR
PEOPLE HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT HUMAN REASON CAN SOLVE SOCIAL PROBLEMS
THE INDIVIDUAL BECOMES MORE IMPORTANT AS PEOPLE USE THEIR OWN ABILITY TO REASON AND JUDGE
COLONIAL LEADERS USE ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS TO JUSTIFY WAR AND WRITE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
THE ENLIGHTENMENT WOULD ALSO HEAVILY INFLUENCE THE US CONSTITUTION AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS!

7. The Enlightenment. Pg 45-46
How did each of the following impact the Enlightnment?
John Locke:
Rousseau:
Montesquieu:

8. AP 1: The Enlightenment 5 words
What 5 words would you use to describe the enlightenment? Explain and justify your responses.

9. TREATY OF PARIS (1783): FREEDOM
Acknowledging the United States to be a free, sovereign and independent nation
Historians have often commented that the treaty was very generous to the United States in terms of greatly enlarged boundaries, which came at the expense of the Indian allies of the British.

10. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
NAPOLEON SELLS THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY TO THE UNITED STATES TO FUND HIS CONQUEST OF EUROPE

11. LEWIS AND CLARKE
MERIWETHER LEWIS AND WILLIAM CLARKE CHOSEN TO FIND ROUTE TO PACIFIC OCEAN.
SURVIVAL DEPENDED ON KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR GUIDE, SACAGAWEA.

12. AP 2 Create 1 test question for each of the following:
1) Treaty of Paris
2) Louisiana Purchase
3) Lewis and Clarke

13. MANIFEST DESTINY REASONS FOR HEADING WEST: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (MORMONS)
CHANCE TO OWN LAND
ADVENTURE/WEALTH
IDEA OF MANIFEST DESTINY: BELIEF THAT GOD HAD GIVEN ENTIRE CONTINENT TO AMERICA AND WAS OUR DESTINY TO SETTLE WESTERN LANDS, BRING DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS WITH US!

14. FARMING NEW LANDS
MANY AMERICANS MOVED WEST FOR THE CHANCE TO OWN THEIR OWN LAND
HOWEVER, FARMING WAS MADE DIFFICULT DUE TO TERRAIN
IN 1837 JOHN DEERE ENGINEERED A PLOW THAT WOULD CUT LABOR IN HALF
CYRUS MCCORMICK’S REAPER (1834) ALLOWED FARMERS TO HARVEST FAR MORE GRAIN
THESE INVENTIONS CONTRIBUTED TO THE SUCCESS OF WESTWARD EXPANSION!

15. WESTWARD MIGRATION
TERRAIN FROM EDGE OF FRONTIER TO THE PACIFIC WAS DIFFICULT.
MEN LIKE KIT CARSON HAD MADE A LIVING TRAPPING BEAVER AND SELLING FURS
BY 1840’S, MOUNTAIN MEN LIKE CARSON HAD CARVED OUT SEVERAL EAST-WEST TRAILS = THE OREGON TRAIL

16. OVERLANDERS
EMIGRANTS MADE THEIR JOURNEY IN GROUPS OF COVERED WAGONS CALLED WAGON TRAINS.
THESE “OVERLANDERS” FOUND THEIR WAY USING GUIDE BOOKS
SOME PARTIES ENDED IN DISASTER (DONNER PARTY)

17. AP 3: Manifest Destiny

18. Activity Show clip from “WESTWARD” ATSU 3- 3 things you found out
2 – 2 interesting things
1 = question you have

19. Learning Log
IN YOUR JOURNAL, SUMMARIZE WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED TODAY. HOW DID THE ENLIGHTENMENT, TREATY OF PARIS, the LOUISIANA , and MANIFEST DESTINY IMPACT AMERICAN EXPANSION?