Transcript U.S. History

March 13, 2013
F.O.A. (Bellwork)
 What’s Manifest Destiny?
 How did the United States’ belief in Manifest Destiny
influence our expansion policy?
EQs
 What were the causes and effects of America’s war
with Mexico? (8.4 spi 9)
 What were the causes and effects of America’s war
with Mexico? (8.4 spi 9)
 What role did slavery play in the United States? (8.5
spi 8)
 What were some of the consequences of expansion?
(8.5 spi 13)
 What impact did population play in the growth of the
United States? (8.3 spi 1)
This week
 Today: Chapter 11 timeline
 Thursday: Early dismissal; report to advisory
 Friday: Westward Expansion
Question
Why is Tennessee known as the
Volunteer State?
Timeline
Timeline
 Use Chapter 11 (pages 346-369).
Timeline events
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Battle of San Jacinto
Battle at the Alamo
Bear Flag Revolt
Gadsden Purchase
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Founding of the Mormon Church
Oregon Trail
Stephen F. Austin
Manifest Destiny
Assignment
 Make a line just like you see on the chart and put the
year beneath it.
 Above the line put the name of the event and one
sentence describing that event.
 Below the year draw a picture that goes with it.
 Put the timeline in chronological order.
Assignment
 Look at the chart on page 347.
 On that chart there are five trails.
 You have to rank the trails in order from one you would
most like to travel to the one you would least like to
travel.
 Ex: No. 1 is the one you would most like to travel.
 For each trail write one paragraph telling me the
positives of taking this trail and one paragraph
detailing the negatives of this trail.
 A paragraph is a minimum of four sentences.