Westward Expansion

Bell Ringer 11/30- TAKE OUT A SHEET OF PAPER. •ON A SHEET OF YOUR OWN PAPER: If you were given the opportunity to double the size of your house for a cheap price, would you take it? •GRAB A BOOK!

Objective/Agenda

•Identify reasons for Westward Expansion•Agenda:•Bell ringer/new unit sheet•Notes/Reading pg 208-209 in book with questions (finish tomorrow

Failed Constitution?

•See me after school today in 236.

Reasons for going west•Needed more land- population was doubling every 25 years!•Industrialization- railroads, steel, etc.

Reasons for going west

•Manifest Destiny•The belief that it was destiny for the United States to control the entire continent

Thomas Jefferson and westward expansion•3rd President of USA (1801-1809)•Plantation owner• Believed people should be

allowed to own land (whites)

Jefferson and the west, cont.

•Louisiana Purchase (1803)•Bought “Louisiana Territory” from France for $15 million•Doubled the size of the USA

Louisiana Purchase

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Territorial-acquisition-uscensus-bureau.jpg

Reading pg. 208-209: Read and create questions

As you read, think about what you do when you read. Do you:Think/ask questions in your head?Underline/highlight/annotate?Look up words you don’t know?Research more info on what you are reading?

Let’s make a list as we go along.

Westward Expansion Begins• Lewis and Clark

• Sent on 2 year trip to reach the Pacific Ocean by river• Were asked to map their route by

Pres. Jefferson for future explorers to follow

• Sacagawea• Native American woman• Guide and interpreter for Lewis and

Clark• Carried her infant son on her back

the entire trip