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Bellringer: EOCT Review Questions

6. Which of the following regions would

have featured the MOST diversity during

the late 1600s and early 1700s?

a. New England c. South Carolina

b. New York d. Jamestown

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b. Describe the westward growth of the

United States; include the emerging

concept of Manifest Destiny.

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Write down 5 details that stand out to you in this painting.

What is the message of this painting?

Opening:

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Manifest Destiny

John L OSullivan, newspaper editor

Away, away with all these cobweb tissues of rightsof discovery, exploration, settlement, contiguity.Our claim

is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and topossess the whole of the continent which Providence hasgiven us for the development of the great experiment ofliberty and federative self government entrusted tous.Oregon can never be to England anything but a mere

hunting ground for furs and peltriesIn our hands it mustfast fill in with a population destined to establish a nobleyoung empire

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Effects of Western Expansion

Now that more land in the western areas of thecontinent belonged to America (LouisianaPurchase), some of those areas were populated

enough and were ready to become a state

What law (first established in the Articles ofConfederation) established the procedure foradding new land into the Union?

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Manifest DestinyThe idea that God wanted the Americans tosettle the west

Several inventions, such as the mechanical

reaper and the steel plow, opened up theGreat Plains to farmers

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Manifest DestinyAmericans headed west for 3 main reason:

1 - the desire to own their own land(Homestead Act)

2- the discovery of gold and other valuable

resources (California Gold Rush)

3- the belief that the US was supposed to

stretch across North America (Manifest

Destiny)

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Manifest DestinyMormons: (a religious group) Settled inUtah in hopes of finding religious freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=related(watch only 1st 4 min..the rest is music)

In the 1820s, Americans began to settle in

Texas, which was owned by Mexico,conflicts would lead to a war with Mexico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xGsg5qegY&feature=related

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Manifest Destiny

1800: 387,000 American settlers beyond

Appalachian Mtns.

1820: 2.4 million settlers

What does Manifest Destiny mean?

God had given Americans the right to settlefrom coast to coast on the American Continent

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Oregon Trail

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Trails West

1.OregonTrail

2.Californi

a Trail

3.Mormon

Trail

4.SouthernTrail

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