Preview
v List
the 4 main reasons
why people migrate
(move)
*Remember back to the Colonization ERA
You will write your notes on the inside of the
flaps.
Notes for
Manifest
Destiny
Notes for
Political
Notes for
Economic
Notes for
Social
Using your notes about Westward Expansion, fill in
the different territories with their correct titles.
Manifest
Destiny
Economic Reasons:
Political Reasons:
Social/ Religious
Reasons:
Oregon
Territory
Louisiana
Purchase
Northwest
Territory
Original
13 Colonies
Mexican
Cession
Gadsden
Purchase
Texas
Annexation
Florida
Purchase
Manifest Destiny
v  Idea
that the U.S. was destined to spread
civilization and democracy across the continent
to the Pacific Ocean.
v  It
was ok to remove Native Americans and
Mexicans from their land because they were
holding up progress.
Political Reasons
v  Fear
v  Spread
v  Keep
of European power
Democracy & American way of life.
the balance between Free and Slave states
for representation in Congress (South)
Economic Reasons
v  Land
v  Gold
–Cash Crops
–California
v  Natural
Resources
Social/ Religious Reasons
v Bring civilization, democracy and technology to
the west.
v Spread religion to Native Americans. U.S.
population had increased
v More land for settlers
Definition: The belief in the
1800‘s that the US was
destined by God to expand
across the continent, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Cowboys
Railroad
Workers
Mormons
Farmers
Exodusters
Native
Americans
49ers
Act it out
v  You
and your partners will be given a group of
settlers who migrated west
v  Read the short Bio about your group
v  Fill in the following sentence stem on your word
bubble
-We are the ______________ and we are migrating for
__________ reasons. We hope to _______________ in
the west. We will probably settle in the ______________
territory because _____________________.
Cowboys
"  Herding cattle from Texas to
Kansas
Railroad Workers
"  Take the Chisholm Trail North
"  Irish & Chinese immigrants
"  Dangerous & difficult work
Mormons
"  Brigham Young leads
Mormons to Great Salt
Lake
"  Found Utah for
religious freedom
Exodusters
"  Former slaves escaping the
South
"  Head to Kansas due to
legend of John Brown
Farmers
"  Moving west for land
" Homestead Act
(1862) gives acres of
land for free to settlers
49ers
Native Americans
"  Forced further west
"  Constrained to reservations
"  Gold discovered outside
San Francisco, CA in 1848
"  Gold rush begins in 1849
Manifest Destiny:
Political Reasons:
Idea that the U.S. was destined to 1.  Fear of European power
spread civilization and
2.  Spread Democracy &
democracy across the continent
American way of life.
to the Pacific Ocean.
3.  Equal representation in
It was ok to remove Native
congress for free and
Americans and Mexicans from
their land because they were
slave states.
holding up progress.
Economic Reasons:
Land- Cash Crops
Gold - California
Natural Resources
Social Reasons:
Bring civilization,
democracy and technology
to the west. Spread religion
to Native Americans. U.S.
population had increased.
More land for settlers.
Ticket Out
On the back of your foldable complete the following sentence stems:
An economic reason that a farmer would like Manifest
Destiny was _____________________________.
2.  A person who supported Manifest Destiny because he
wanted to make money from the natural resources out West
had an _______________ reason for supporting it.
3.  A social reason that a missionary would support Manifest
Destiny was ______________________________.
4.  Our Presidents supported Manifest Destiny for the political
reason that it ______________________________.
Analyze: Did America benefit from the concept of Manifest
Destiny or did it cause America harm? Explain your answer.
1. 
Ticket Out
On the back of your foldable complete the following sentence stems:
An economic reason that a farmer would like Manifest
Destiny was to get more land for farming
2.  A person who supported Manifest Destiny because he
wanted to make money from the natural resources out West
had economic an reason for supporting it.
3.  A social reason that a missionary would support Manifest
Destiny was to spread his religion to the Native Americans.
4.  Our Presidents supported Manifest Destiny for the political
reason that it
would keep Europe from having land here or would
spread Democracy and the American way of life.
1.