Class Expectations
E.Q: How did antebellum events polarize the nation?
E.U: Conflict occurs as a result of foreign and domestic challenges.
Be Respectful
(Disrespect of Others)
1. Follow teacher directions.
2. Listen and learn from others.
3. Use appropriate language.
Be Responsible
(Socializing / Sleeping)
1. Have supplies and materials out.
(SEAT NUMBER = COMPUTER NUMBER)
2. Arrive on time.
3. Remain on task.
(POINTS DEDUCTED = OFF TASK BEHAVIOR)
1.
Be Safe
(Cell Phones / Seating)
Stay seated unless given permission to stand.
2. Clean up your space.
3. Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself.
(ACTIONS = CONSEQUENCES)
U.S. History I (Mr. McCarrison) – (04 – 06 – 2015)
Bellringer: (5 MINUTES) – (3 PTS / EACH) -> Read the following two questions and answer them in complete sentences.
1. Who has the greater claim to a piece of land? - an absentee owner with land rights or the person who takes care of it everyday.
2. How do you think the two should resolve their differences over land rights if an argument or disagreement would begin today?
Manifest Destiny Picture Reflection: 5 MINS & 6 PTS TOTAL
• Answer the following three questions on your activity sheet of paper in complete sentences.
1. Using your laptops, define these two following key terms, “Manifest Destiny” and “Fifty – Four Forty or Fight!”
2. Using this famous painting below, what do you see that illustrates “movement”?; how does the painter illustrate the angel?
3. Using your examples above, how are the ideas of westward expansion illustrated in this famous American painting below?
Manifest Destiny Conflicts Primary Source Research Reflection (3 Different Websites)
1. Go to the following website: http://tinyurl.com/plq3533
2. This website discusses the Aroostook War (1839); this is the only war ever declared by a U.S. state.
3. Why would the state of Maine declare war over Canadian territory? What was Congress’s response to resolve this conflict?
-------------------------------------------1. Go to the following website: http://tinyurl.com/kg9xk9c
2. This website discusses the Webster - Ashburton Treaty over disputed territory between Maine and British Canada.
3. How did this treaty help create compromise between the United States and England? How was this conflict finally resolved?
---------------------------------------------1. Go to the following website: http://tinyurl.com/pk4kyks
2. This website discusses the Black Hawk War, Chief Black Hawk rebellion, and the Fort Laramie Treaty (1851).
3. Why does Chief Black Hawk lead a rebellion against white settlers? How does the Fort Laramie Treaty resolve this conflict?
Film Reflection (5 MINS): How was the ideas of Manifest Destiny the result of multiple foreign and domestic challenges?
Title: Manifest Destiny
SECTION NOTES (CREATE AN OUTLINE IN YOUR NOTES USING BOLD ITEMS)
(YOU WILL LOSE FIVE POINTS FOR DISRUPTIONS!) – (5 MINUTES)
“Manifest Destiny”: a term first coined in 1845 by newspaper editor John O’ Sullivan.
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“America had the god given right to expand U.S. borders from “ sea to shinning sea.”
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In the 1840s, Americans became preoccupied with expansion; westward movement was predestined by God.
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Overall, Americans wanted to bring democracy and religion; Christianize the Native Americans (“Mission System”).
Major Reasons for Heading West
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Free cheap land, opportunities for wealth, escape religious persecution, and find new markets for commerce.
Westward Trails (“Mountain Men” -> Fur Traders (Beaver)) -> John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company
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Santa Fe Trail: a 780 mile road from Missouri to New Mexico; one of the “first western wagon travel trails”.
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Oregon Trail: Missouri to Oregon; 2,000 miles long! -> Zebulon Pike (“Pike’s Peak”) -> explores the Colorado territory.
“Lone Star Republic” (Texas)
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U.S. refuses to annex Texas at the beginning as Northerners blocked annexation; WHY? -> SLAVERY PROBLEMS!
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Our government feared backlash on slavery so they allow Texas to become an independent country at the beginning; HOW?
Mexican (Texas) Independence (“The Beginning”)
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Northern Mexican (Texas) groups became loyal to the U.S. so they invites settlers to show respect to them; HOW?
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If you follow Mexican law (no slaves), we will give you land grants to protect you from the Native Americans; stability!
3.
As Northern Mexico (Texas) grows (300 settlers+), Stephen Austin travels west; known as the Father of Texas.
4.
When arriving in “Texas”, he establishes the largest settlement, calls it Austin, Texas, and debates the use of slavery.
SECTION NOTES (CREATE AN OUTLINE IN YOUR NOTES USING BOLD ITEMS)
(YOU WILL LOSE FIVE POINTS FOR DISRUPTIONS!) – (5 MINUTES)
Texas Fights for Independence
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Americans outnumber Mexicans in Texas (2 to 1); leads to multiple “slavery, land, and religious disputes.”
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In 1834, Santa Anna becomes Dictator of Mexico and wants all Texans to obey Mexican laws.
"Remember the Alamo” (Texas Declares Independence (1836))
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Due to continued disagreements, Mexico (Santa Anna) declares war on Texas (Sam Houston).
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At the beginning (1836), 187 Texans would be killed the Alamo (missionary); fighting for the "Lone Star Republic.”
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With Bowie and Crockett dead, by, 1845 under Sam Houston, he will push his men and win at San Jacinto.
President Polk Urges War -> Why Get U.S. Involved?
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Slidell's Rejection: Mexico rejects Diplomat Slidell’s offer to purchase California and New Mexico due to Texas situation.
America’s Attitude Towards War
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Southerners were in favor of the war because Texas would be considered a strong slave state in the American South.
U.S. vs. Mexico? (Mexican – American War?)
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Colonel Kearny, an American general, will march west and capture New Mexico without a fight from Mexico.
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Zachary Taylor will march to the Republic of California -> wins without a real fight from Mexico.
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During this same year, Taylor runs and is easily elected president of the United States as a “victor without war.”
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Even the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) will be signed that sets the border at the Rio Grande; Gadsden Purchase.
Daily Quiz Questions – (USE YOUR NOTES!) – (5 MINUTES & 2 PTS EACH)
Answer the following five questions in complete sentences on your activity sheet of paper; pages 288 – 292.
1. Compare and contrast Santa Anna & Stephen Austin as leaders; use details from notes and textbooks to explain your answer.
2. Use a diagram similar to this one below to analyze the relationship between Mexican authorities and settlers living in Texas.
Mexico
Settlers
Goals:
Actions:
Outcomes:
3. What other actions might Mexico or the settlers have taken to avoid future conflict?
4. In your own words, explain the differences between the Northern and Southern positions on the annexation of Texas.
5. What role did Stephen Austin play in the American settlement of Texas? Why was his colony so successful over others?
Impact of Mexican Independence Primary Source Research Assignment (10 MINS & 20 PTS TOTAL)
1. Analyze page 289 in your textbooks entitled “The Impact of Mexican Independence” and “Mexico Invites U.S. Settlers.”
2. Create the cause and effect chart below using information from those two sections about the Texas independence movement.
Cause: Mexico Wins Independence
Effect: _______________________________________
Effect: _______________________________________
Effect: _______________________________________
3. Using your laptops, you are going to create your own pictorial essay (collage) that tells the story of the Alamo (battle).
4. You and your partner are going to find FIVE pictures and FIVE descriptions about the famous battle of the Alamo (Texas).
5. Also, you must include a picture or two of the Alamo as it appears today in the state of Texas.
6. After you have gathered all of your pictures and descriptions, create your own pictorial essay (collage) in Microsoft Word
displaying them in their proper sequence (order) with your proper captions (descriptions) under them for class review.
Homework Assignment (5 MINS & 3 PTS TOTAL) - Read the question below and answer on your activity sheet of paper.
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Which issue in the 1820s increased tensions between Texans and the government of Mexico?
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High taxes throughout the western territories.
B.
Differences over land use and water rights in the western territories.
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Slavery and cultural differences in the western territories.
D.
Individual problems between American settlers and Native Americans throughout the western territories.
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Using notes, create a five event timeline based on events that occurred between the countries of U.S. & Mexico (1800s).