New Test Material MANIFEST DESTINY (Chapter 12)

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New Test MaterialMANIFEST DESTINY(Chapter 12)
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Timeline for completion

• Wednesday and Thursdaywork on 12-1 guided
  reading, primary source and Conestoga wagon
  worksheets
• Fridaywork on Runaway Scrape play and complete
  worksheet about the play possibly start USA
  Gains Land from Mexico worksheet
• Monday and Tuesdaymapwork (3 pages)
• WEdnesdayRead 12-4 and complete 12-4 guided
  reading, also complete MANIFEST DESTINEY acrostic
• Your packet must be complete when you arrive to
  class on Thursday!!!!!!

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1 Manifest Destiny-1840s

• This was the idea that the United States should
  acquire all the land from the Atlantic to the
  Pacific.
• From Sea to Shining Sea
• President James K. Polk

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2 Commonly used trails to the west

• Oregon Trail
• Santa Fe Trail

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3 Battle of the Alamo

• During the War for Independence (Texas vs. Mexico
• Santa Annas army attacked Alamo
• Davey Crockett Dies
• 12 day siege
• Texas wins their Independence from Mexico

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• Jim Bowie
• Davey Crockett

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Reasons people moved west
1) inexpensive land/farming/open spaces
2) raising cattle
3) religious reasons
4) gold-1848
5) fur trading 6) A better life
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5 American Progress painting

• Natives Americans and animals are running in fear
• As the angel moves west, she brightens the way
  bringing progress and technology behind her
• Telegraph lines improve communication with Morse
  Code
• Trains are heading west and travel improves
• Angel represents westward movement and change

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5 American Progress painting

• Conestoga wagons were the main way people travel
  west until trains.
• Telegraph lines are being placed across America
  to send Morse Code
• People are moving west because of Manifest
  Destiny which is represented by the angel
• As the angel moves west progress and technology
  and brightness follow
• Native Americans and animals are being displaced
  further west.

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How did people travel west?
1) Conestoga wagons-main method of travel2)
horseback3) walked4) steamboat5) railroad6)
stagecoach