Transcript Factors That Led to Expansion

FACTORS THAT LED TO
EXPANSION
Lesson 2.5: Enlightenment to Manifest Destiny
REVIEW
• How did the following events help to form an American
Identity?
• French and Indian War:
• Proclamation line of 1763:
• The Great Awakening:
• Test coming soon!
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
• How did the Enlightenment, the Treaty of Paris, the
Louisiana Purchase, and Manifest Destiny impact American
expansion?
ACTIVATING
• 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
side of the painting darker than the right?
• For what does O’Sullivan say the United States is chosen?
KEY VOCABULARY
Manifest
Destiny
MANIFEST DESTINY
THE ENLIGHTENMENT: THE BACKBONE
OF WHO WE ARE
• Inspired by the philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries.
• Scientific thinking replaced superstition and fear.
• People gained that confidence that human reason could
solve social problems.
• The individual became more important as people used
their own ability to reason and judge.
• Colonial leaders used 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.
THE ENLIGHTENMENT, PAGE 45-46
• How did each of the following impact the Enlightenment?
• John Locke:
• Jean Jacques Rousseau:
• Montesquieu:
ASSESSMENT PROMPT 1
• The Enlightenment
• What 5 words would you use to describe the
Enlightenment? Explain and justify your responses.
TREATY OF PARIS (1783): FREEDOM
• The Treaty of Paris
acknowledged 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.
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
• Napoleon
sold the
Louisiana
territory to
the United
States in
order to
fund his
conquest of
Europe.
LEWIS & CLARKE
• Merriweather Lewis & William Clarke were chosen to find a route to
the Pacific Ocean.
• Their survival was dependent on the knowledge of their guide,
Sacagawea.
ASSESSMENT PROMPT 2
• In a sentence or two, explain the importance of each of the following in
regards to expansion.
• Treaty of Paris
• Louisiana Purchase
• Lewis & Clarke
MANIFEST DESTINY
• Reasons for heading west:
• Religious freedom (Mormons)
• Chance to own land
• Adventure/wealth
• Idea of Manifest Destiny: belief that
God had given the entire continent to
America and it was our destiny to
settle the western lands and to bring
democracy and progress with us!
FARMING NEW LANDS
• Many Americans moved west for the
chance to own their own land.
• However, farming in the west was
extremely difficult due to the terrain.
• In 1837, John Deere engineered a plow
that would cut work labor in half.
• Cyrus McCormick’s reaper (1834)
allowed farmers to harvest far more grain.
• These inventions helped contribute to
westward expansion.
WESTWARD MIGRATION
• Terrain from the edge of the
frontier to the Pacific was
extremely difficult.
• Men like Kit Carson made a
living trapping beavers and
selling fur.
• By the 1840s, mountain men
like Carson had forged out
many east-west trails. One of
the most notable was the
Oregon Trail.
OVERLANDERS
• Emigrants made their
journeys west in groups of
covered wagons known as
wagon trains.
• These “overlanders” found
their way using guidebooks.
• Some parties ended in
disaster such as the Donner
Party.
ASSESSMENT PROMPT 3: MANIFEST
DESTINY
ACTIVITY
• Watch the following clip “Westward” from America: The
Story of Us and complete the following 3-2-1 in your
Learning Log.
• 3 = 3 things you found out.
• 2 = 2 interesting things you learned.
• 1 = 1 question that you still have.
JOURNAL
• How did the Enlightenment, the Treaty of Paris, the
Louisiana Purchase, and Manifest Destiny impact American
expansion?