Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion
Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion
- Define Manifest Destiny below. Include a social, political, and economic (think technology explanation).
- Who is moving west in this image and what type of technology are they bringing?
- When was most of the U.S. territory acquired?
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- How many people need to live in a territory before it can become a state?
- What is the name of the law that created the process for how a territory becomes a state?
- What is the name of the trail below?
- What is one thing the acquisition of Texas and Oregon share?
- Based on the passage below, what reason does O’Sullivan give for the expansion of the U.S to Oregon?
“Away, away with all these cobweb issues of rights of discovery, exploration,settlement, continuity, etc.… our claim to Oregon would still be best and strongest. andthat claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.”
—John O'Sullivan, New York Morning News, December 1845
- Why does President Polk argue that California should be a part of the United States?
Extending nearly ten degrees of latitude along the Pacific, and embracing the only safeand commodious harbors on that coast for many hundred miles, with a temperate climate and an extensive interior of fertile lands, it is scarcely possible to estimate its wealth until it shall be brought under the government of our laws and its resources fully developed. From its position it must command the rich commerce of China, of Asia, of
the islands of the Pacific, of western Mexico, of Central America, the South American States, and of the Russian possessions bordering on that ocean. A great emporium will doubtless speedily arise on the Californian coast which may be destined to rival in importance New Orleans itself.
—President James K. Polk, State of the Union Address, December 5, 1
- What are four causes of the US Mexican War?
- What are three outcomes of the Mexican War?
- What is the name of the treaty the ended the Mexican War?
- What are the names of the States shaded in the area below?
- What are three factors that attracted Immigrants to the United States in the 1800s?
- Why did many Asians immigrate to the US in the 1800s?
- Why did many Irish immigrate to the United States in the 1800s?
- What year did the Potato famine occur?
- Why did Mormons migrate to the West in the 1800s?
- How did Sacagawea contribute to the Lewis and Clark expedition?
- Why did California reach statehood before any other territories American Southwest?