Name:______
MANIFEST DESTINY MAPS
As America matured as a nation, it grew larger and larger. This expansion was caused by numerous inventions, treaties, and wars. For a project grade, you will create a map showing the territories acquired by America in the early 1800s.
Step One: Choosing of topics
Students will work individual or be broken up into teams and randomly choose from the topics attached.
Step Two: Research
Using the textbook, books in my room, encyclopedias, books in the library, and Internet sources, you will do the following.
1. Research background on your topic to answer the questions for each category.
2. Use the map given to you or another map in a book or online that you can use as a guide to represent your topic.
Step Three: Creation of the Map
Using construction paper, you will create a map showing your region and the information requested.
Part One: Requirements
The map must include the following:
A title Scale (accuracy is key for math class)
A key Title of regions on map
Compass rose At least 1 Latitude and 1 longitude line
Symbols Physical land features
Part Two: Topic-Related Information
You will need to show information concerning your particular topic. The map may include the following things:
Locations of important historical events
Summary descriptions next to those locations (Battle of …., Date)
Colors for different political boundaries, lands, and physical features
Symbols for significant physical landscapes (Mountains, Oceans, etc.)
Symbols for areas of transportation (roads, canals, turnpikes, etc.)
Scale is an important component for creating an accurate map. Use what you have learned in math class to create accurate scales representing the distance between particular points on the map (ex. distance of a trail, locations of cities, sizes of lakes and streams, etc.)
Part Three: Neatness
The hardest thing you will find in creating and designing this map is in making it neat and easy to read. Here are some suggestions that may help you create your map more effectively:
1. Buy transparent paper at an art store and trace out your map first for practice.
2. Create sectors on your copy of the map from your source. Then, place the sectors at a larger scale on the construction paper. Copy each sector one at a time. Then, lightly erase the lines after finishing your drawing.
3. You may want to make parts of your map on separate pieces of paper, then cut them out and paste them onto the construction paper. This will prevent you from having to do the map all over again in case you make a mistake.
4. Study the maps I have in class. Make your map large by putting it on a large piece of construction paper or cardboard. This will give you more space to put information, symbols, and descriptions on your map, as well as let others see it from a distance.
Part Four: Q and A Sheet
Each map has key questions that need to be answered. These questions will be addressed on a Question and Answer sheet. This sheet will be graded based on its correctness, detail, and clarity.
The Q and A sheet may be attached to your map, but be sure to have one handy to use to help you with your presentation. The Q and A may be due on a different day than the map.
Part Five: Presentation
After completing your map and the Q & A , you will make a presentation of your particular topic. The presentation must include the following:
Background information on the issue, conflict, or invention
Explanations of what the symbols on the map represent
Answering of questions from the class
Clarification of scale and its use on the map
The presentations may take place one at a time or in a group setting. It will depend on time, which students are available to do presentations, and the order in which we follow certain topics.
GOOD LUCK!!
TOPICS RELATED TO MAP PROJECTS
Below are the maps that are to be made. An “m” notes which page a map appears related to your topic in the textbook. You will probably need to look for other maps and sources to help you answer the questions.
1. Create a map showing the construction of railroads in the eastern part of the United States (388-391, m389)
Describe the challenges that took place inventing the first steam engine.
What were early trains like?
Describe the development of the Tom Thumb.
Describe how railways expanded between 1840 and 1860.
How did railways transform, or change, trade in the nation’s interior?
How did railroads affect settlement in the west?
2. Create a political map showing the Acquisition of Florida in 1819 (m291, 325-326)
What challenges are the Spanish facing with their empire in the Americas
How did the Louisiana Purchase cause a border dispute in Florida?
Who were the Seminoles, and how were they causing conflict with the United States?
Explain how Andrew Jackson was involved in this conflict.
How did Secretary of State John Quincy Adams handle the situation?
Summarize the terms of the Adams-Onis (Transcontinental) Treaty.
3. Create a map showing the Texan War (366-371, m370)
List the reasons why Texans came into conflict with the Mexican Government
What was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s reaction to the American immigrants?
Who were Davy Crockett and Sam Houston?
What happened at The Alamo and San Jacinto?
How did the Texan War end?
What did Texans want after the war?
4. A map showing the United States, Mexico, and Republic of Texas before and during the Mexican War (m376, 375-377)
What did John Slidell attempt to do before the war began?
How did the Mexican War start?
What regions in America were for the war, and what regions were against it? Why?
Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of each side in the Mexican War.
What were some significant battles that took place during the Mexican War?
Who were some famous Americans who fought in the Mexican War?
5. Create a map showing the United States, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas after the Mexican War
(375-377)
How did the Mexican War end?
What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What has Mexican culture influenced life in the southwestern part of America?
How was the Gadsden Purchase negotiated?
Why was the original purpose of buying this land from Mexico?
How did the Gadsden Purchase help railroads in the west?
6. Create a map showing where gold was found in California (412-417)
Who were Californios?
What did the Land Law of 1851 do to Californios?
What did John C. Fremont argue for in the region?
What was the Gold Rushand how did itaffect California?
What were mining camps like?
How did Levi Strauss and others become wealthy in California?
7. Create a map showing land routes to the west and where the Mormons settled (381-382, m314AP)
Who did Joseph Smith claim?
What caused Mormons to be in conflict with American society in the early 1800s?
What did Brigham Young do?
What was the Mormon Trail, and where did they settle?
What did settlers do in the new Utah Territory?
Explain the tension that existed between the Mormons and the American government.
8. Create a political map of the Oregon territory (361-363, m363)
Explain what countries believed they had rights to the Oregon territory (there were 4)
What did the battle cry “54 40 or Fight” mean?
How was the dispute settled?
What was the Oregon Trail?
Describe some of the challenges faced by people who traveled the Oregon Trail.
Summarize what life was like in the Oregon Territory
9. Create a map showing the Sante Fe Trail (372-374, m374)
Describe the New Mexico territory.
Summarize the exploits of William Becknell
What was the purpose of the Santa Fe Trail?
Explain why people were willing to take the Sante Fe Trail to New Mexico.
What were land speculators?
Names:______
RUBRIC FOR MANIFEST DESTINY MAPS
Map: (54 points)
Name of presenter (2 pts) ______
Title of map (4 pts) ______
Key (4 pts) ______
Compass Rose (4 pts) ______
Symbols (Different from one in textbook) (4 pts) ______
Accurate Scale (8 pts) ______
Title of regions on map (4 pts) ______
At least 1 latitude line (4 pts) ______
At least 1 longitude line (4 pts) ______
At least 1 physical land feature (4 pts) ______
Spelling (3 pts) ______
Spacing (3 pts) ______
Accuracy (3 pts) ______
Neatness (3 pts) ______
Fact Sheet: (24 pts)
Answered question #1 (4 pts) ______
Answered question #2 (4 pts) ______
Answered question #3 (4 pts) ______
Answered question #4 (4 pts) ______
Answered question #5 (4 pts) ______
Answered question #6 (4 pts) ______
Presentation (22 points)
Sense of understanding of topic (4 pts) ______
Eye contact with audience (4 pts) ______
Heard by audience (4 pts) ______
Little or no use of prompts ex. notecards, papers (4 pts) ______
Listens to other people’s presentations (6 pts) ______
Total: 100 points ______