UNIT 2: FACTORS THAT LED TO EXPLORATION

LESSON 2.5:ENLIGHTENMENT TO MANIFEST DESTINY

MANIFEST DESTINY

focus How did the following events help to form an

American Identity?

French and Indian War:

Proclamation line of 1763:

The Great Awakening:

Test on Wednesday…..

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 PORTION OF THE PAINTING DARKER THAN THE RIGHT?

FOR WHAT DOES O’SULLIVAN SAY THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN CHOSEN?

Frayer Model: Manifest Destiny

THE ENLIGHTENMENT: THE BACKBONE OF WHO WE ARE

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!

The Enlightenment. Pg 45-46

How did each of the following impact the Enlightnment?

John Locke:

Rousseau: Montesquieu:

AP 1: The Enlightenment 5 words What 5 words would you use to

describe the enlightenment? Explain and justify your responses.

TREATY OF PARIS (1783): FREEDOM

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.

THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE NAPOLEON SELLS THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY TO THE

UNITED STATES TO FUND HIS CONQUEST OF EUROPE

LEWIS AND CLARKE MERIWETHER LEWIS AND WILLIAM CLARKE CHOSEN TO

FIND ROUTE TO PACIFIC OCEAN. SURVIVAL DEPENDED ON KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR GUIDE,

SACAGAWEA.

AP 2 Create 1 test question for each of the

following: 1) Treaty of Paris 2) Louisiana Purchase 3) Lewis and 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 ENTIRE CONTINENT TO AMERICA AND WAS OUR DESTINY TO SETTLE WESTERN LANDS, BRING DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS WITH US!

FARMING NEW LANDS 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!

WESTWARD MIGRATION TERRAIN FROM EDGE OF

FRONTIER TO THE PACIFIC WAS DIFFICULT.

MEN LIKE KIT CARSON 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

OVERLANDERS 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)

AP 3: Manifest Destiny

Activity Show clip from “WESTWARD” ATSU 3- 3 things you found out 2 – 2 interesting things 1 = question you have

Learning Log IN YOUR JOURNAL, SUMMARIZE WHAT

YOU HAVE LEARNED TODAY. HOW DID THE ENLIGHTENMENT, TREATY OF PARIS, the LOUISIANA , and MANIFEST DESTINY IMPACT AMERICAN EXPANSION?