Transcript UNIT 2: FACTORS THAT LED TO EXPLORATION

 How
did the following events help to form
an American Identity?
 French
and Indian War:
 Proclamation
line of 1763:
 The
Great Awakening:
 Test
THURSDAY
LESSON 2.5:ENLIGHTENMENT
TO MANIFEST DESTINY
 How
has Manifest Destiny impacted
American history?
 TURN TO
PAGE 255 IN THE TEXT. STUDY
“PRIMARY SOURCE: THE IDEA OF
MANIFEST DESTINY”
 WHAT SYMBOLIZES PROGRESS IN THE
PAINTING? WHY IS THE LEFT PORTION
OF THE PAINTING DARKER THAN THE
RIGHT?
 FOR WHAT DOES O’SULLIVAN SAY THE
UNITED STATES HAS BEEN CHOSEN?
INSPIRED BY PHILOSOPHERS OF THE 17TH AND 18TH
CENTURIES
 SCIENTIFIC THINKING REPLACES SUPERSTITION
AND FEAR
 PEOPLE HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT HUMAN REASON
CAN SOLVE SOCIAL PROBLEMS
 THE INDIVIDUAL BECOMES MORE IMPORTANT AS
PEOPLE USE THEIR OWN ABILITY TO REASON AND
JUDGE
 COLONIAL LEADERS USE ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS
TO JUSTIFY WAR AND WRITE THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE.
 THE ENLIGHTENMENT WOULD ALSO HEAVILY
INFLUENCE THE US CONSTITUTION AND THE BILL
OF RIGHTS!
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 How
did each of the following impact the
Enlightnment?
 John
Locke:
 Rousseau:
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 Montesquieu:
5
words
 What 5 words would you use to describe
the enlightenment? Explain and justify
your responses.
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Acknowledging the
United States to be a free,
sovereign and
independent nation
Historians have often
commented that the
treaty was very generous
to the United States in
terms of greatly enlarged
boundaries, which came
at the expense of the
Indian allies of the
British.
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NAPOLEON SELLS THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY TO THE UNITED
STATES TO FUND HIS CONQUEST OF EUROPE
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MERIWETHER LEWIS AND WILLIAM CLARKE CHOSEN TO FIND
ROUTE TO PACIFIC OCEAN.
SURVIVAL DEPENDED ON KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR GUIDE,
SACAGAWEA.
 Explain
the importance of each of the
following in regard to expansion.
 1) Treaty of Paris
 2) Louisiana Purchase
 3) Lewis and Clarke
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MANY AMERICANS MOVED
WEST FOR THE CHANCE TO
OWN THEIR OWN LAND
HOWEVER, FARMING WAS
MADE DIFFICULT DUE TO
TERRAIN
IN 1837 JOHN DEERE
ENGINEERED A PLOW THAT
WOULD CUT LABOR IN HALF
CYRUS MCCORMICK’S REAPER
(1834) ALLOWED FARMERS TO
HARVEST FAR MORE GRAIN
THESE INVENTIONS
CONTRIBUTED TO THE
SUCCESS OF WESTWARD
EXPANSION!
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TERRAIN FROM EDGE OF
FRONTIER TO THE PACIFIC
WAS DIFFICULT.
MEN LIKE KIT CARSON
JEDIDIAH SMITH, AND
DANIEL BOONE HAD MADE A
LIVING TRAPPING BEAVER
AND SELLING FURS
BY 1840’S, MOUNTAIN MEN
LIKE CARSON HAD CARVED
OUT SEVERAL EAST-WEST
TRAILS = THE OREGON TRAIL
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REASONS FOR HEADING
WEST:
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
(MORMONS)
CHANCE TO OWN LAND
ADVENTURE/WEALTH
IDEA OF MANIFEST DESTINY:
BELIEF THAT GOD HAD
GIVEN ENTIRE CONTINENT
TO AMERICA AND WAS OUR
DESTINY TO SETTLE
WESTERN LANDS, BRING
DEMOCRACY AND
PROGRESS WITH US!
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EMIGRANTS MADE THEIR
JOURNEY IN GROUPS OF
COVERED WAGONS CALLED
WAGON TRAINS.
THESE “OVERLANDERS”
FOUND THEIR WAY USING
GUIDE BOOKS
SOME PARTIES ENDED IN
DISASTER (DONNER PARTY)
 Show
clip from “WESTWARD” ATSU
 3- 3 things you found out
 2 – 2 interesting things
 1 = question you have
 IN YOUR
JOURNAL, SUMMARIZE WHAT
YOU HAVE LEARNED TODAY. HOW DID
THE ENLIGHTENMENT, TREATY OF
PARIS, the LOUISIANA , and MANIFEST
DESTINY IMPACT AMERICAN
EXPANSION?