1. Bellringer: CompBook – HIPP – Lincoln Spot Resolution 2. Venn: Texas Independence & Mexican-American War 3. Turning Points: Mexican- American War / Free-Soil Party / John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry 4. Annotate DocBook pages 279 – 283. 5. CCOT for Monday Friday November 17 War News From Mexico Richard c. Woodville, 1848
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1. Bellringer: CompBook –
HIPP – Lincoln Spot
Resolution
2. Venn: Texas Independence &
Mexican-American War
3. Turning Points: Mexican-
American War / Free-Soil
Party / John Brown’s Raid on
Harper’s Ferry
4. Annotate DocBook pages 279
– 283.
5. CCOT for Monday
Friday November 17
War News From Mexico
Richard c. Woodville, 1848
Westward Expansion
Essential Questions• Why did Americans of European descent feel so compelled to
expand the country westward?
• What might 19th-century Native Americans have said about
Manifest Destiny? Why would they have taken this
perspective?
• How might the country have developed differently if no gold or
other precious minerals had been discovered in the West?
• What would it have been like to walk in the shoes of a 19th-
century settler in the West?
• What did 19th-century federal legislation and military activity
reveal about the government’s attitude toward westward
expansion?
• In what ways did westward expansion rely on immigration?
The Myth of “Discovery”• Native Americans
already lived on the
land that white
explorers claimed to
have “discovered”
• An extremely
diverse set of
cultures inhabited
North America
before Europeans
arrivedAs this map shows, dozens of tribes speaking
nearly 20 different languages existed in America
before the Europeans came
Other Expeditions
• Zebulon Pike explored
the Southwest and
gathered information
while in Spanish
custody
• Fur traders explored
and mapped western
territory
Zebulon Pike
“Mountain Men”• Western fur
traders
• A multicultural
group
• Most worked for
fur companies
• Changing
fashions
diminished the
fur trade
A fur trader on horseback hunting in shallow water
The Santa Fe Trail
• Independence,
Missouri, to Santa Fe
• A popular trade route
between the U.S. and
Mexico
• An invasion route
during the Mexican-
American war
• Vital to economic
expansion of new
U.S. territories
The Santa Fe trail appears in red
The Oregon Trail
• Independence to
present-day Oregon
• Became a crowded
and dangerous route
• Trading stations
• Led to U.S. control
of Oregon Territory
Wagon tracks on a section of the
Oregon Trail in Nebraska
“Manifest Destiny”• Coined in 1845
• Belief that God had
destined the U.S. to
reach the Pacific
• Justified westward
expansion
• Would require the
subjugation of
Native Americans
and “taming” of the
landscape
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,
a painting influenced by the idea of Manifest
Destiny
Defining the West• The definition of
the West has
changed
• “Old West” in
colonial times
• Northwest
(present-day
Midwest)
• West of the
Missouri River A 1794 map showing the Western Territory of the