Manifest+Destiny

toc =Manifest Destiny:= ** No nation ever existed without some sense of national destiny or purpose. **

//"Away, away with all these cobweb tissues of rights of discovery, exploration, settlement, contiguity, etc. The American 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 federative self-government entrusted to us. It is a right such as that of the tree to the space of air and earth suitable for the full expansion of its principle and destiny of growth. ...It is in our future far more than in the past history of Spanish exploration or French colonial rights, that our True Title is to be found."//
 * //1845, John O'Sullivan,//**
 * //editor of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review//**

=Key Terms & People= =Resources for Note taking= Manifest Destiny Group Inquiry

=Handouts from Class= Manifest Destiny: An Introduction Reading

=Study Guides= Ch 15 - Westward Expansion Test Study Guide

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 * School House Rocks: Elbow Room**

=Resources for Discussion...=


 * Resources:**

Background on Manifest Destiny: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/manifest/manif1.htm

"American Progress" painting by John Gast (1872) http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/west/westwardho.jpg

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=Manifest Destiny Applied=

Part A - Additional Research

 * Key Term****(s)**
 * Louisiana Purchase (1803)
 * [|Manifest Destiny] (1845)
 * Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

//Be prepared to discuss the following in the understanding of the application of Manifest Destiny:// > > - //**Have this ready to use for discussion and hand in**//
 * Main Idea****(s)**
 * 1) What is Manifest Destiny and explain its significance?
 * 2) What caused American and Mexican nationalism to conflict in Texas?
 * 3) How did the United States achieve each of the following territories: Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California? ([|map animation])
 * 4) What role did nationalism play in each of these acquisitions?


 * Resource(s)**
 * Hart pgs. 198 - 203, 206 - 209
 * Louisiana Purchase (Hippocampus)
 * [|Texas Revolt] (iTunes)
 * [|Annexation of Texas] (Hippocampus)
 * [|The Mexican-American War](Hippocampus)
 * [|Manifest Destiny & Mexican-American War]


 * Assessment **
 * [|Quia Manifest Destiny Review]