Unit 2

Expansion

Monday 10/5/2015
Objective: Understand the motives and ambitions of the Americans who traveled
West during the 1800s

Look at the map of the United States:

What is the West? What characteristics do
you associate with the West?
Bellringer:

Agenda
1.
2.

Bellringer-- these will be collected at the end of every week-- 5 pts.

America Story of US Westward

Wednesday 10/6/2015
Objective: Understand the motives and ambitions of the Americans who traveled
West during the 1800s

What opportunities did the West give

Americans? What were the risks of traveling?
Bellringer:

Agenda
1.
2.
3.

Bellringer-- these will be collected at the end of every week-- 5 pts.

America Story of US Westward
Notes on westward expansion, Louisiana Purchase, and Texas Annexation

Wednesday 10/7/2015
Objective: Understand the motives and ambitions of the Americans who traveled
West during the 1800s

"What is this you call property? It

cannot be the earth, for the land is our
mother, nourishing all her children, beasts,
birds, fish and all men. The woods, the
streams, everything on it belongs to
everybody and is for the use of all. How can
one man say it belongs only to him?" 1. Analyze
Bellringer:

this quote -- 2. Who do you think wrote it?

Agenda:
1.
2.
3.

Bellringer
Discuss Video questions
Notes

Why did U.S. leaders believe we should expand

west?
1. Taking land from Natives has been going on since initial Euro. contact
2. After Am. Revolution, Americans claimed land of Natives who had
fought against them
3. Thomas Jefferson -- small farmers-- why?
4. Racial Superiority
5. The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to
overspread and possess the whole continent which Providence
has given us for the development of the great experiment of
liberty and self-government. John OSullivan 1845

1.
2.

Most people saw this as a way for

the American economy to grow
Was this unconstitutional? Acquisition of new territory was
not mentioned in the Constitution.

Why was there disagreement?

a.

NW Ordinance (1787)
i.

Established Gov for

territory

ii.

Outlined process for

admitting new state
Guaranteed equality

iii.

3.
4.

Being spread out could be bad -lead to international war.

Huge population BOOM - from
1776- 1850 the population
doubled every 25 years

How many
countries claimed
territory in North
America in 1800?
Which two
countries claimed
the largest
territory in North
America?
*Write answers in
notebook

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

1800- Spain, France, Britain, and Russia still had land

claims in North America
In 1800 Spain transferred region to France
The US Government feared trouble with the port of New
Orleans
President Thomas Jefferson sent diplomats to France
The sold the entire Louisiana Territory for $15 dollars.
In the next 100 years, the US government would fight over
50 wars and negotiated dozens of treaties with the Indians
who occupied this land

Think about the

previous map.
Approx. how
many tribes
occupied the
Louisiana
territory?
What large,
regional
categories are
labeled. List
them
*Write answers
in notebook

Bellringer: Answer the following questions

How many tribes occupied the

Louisiana territory?

List the names and dates of the eight

major territorial gains the United States
made after 1783.

Thursday: 10/8/2015
Essential Questions:
1. How did the US government policy towards Native Americans change
between 1789 and 1830
2. How did Native Americans respond to the US government
Agenda:

1. Bellringer-- turn in sheets

2. Individual critical reading -- make sure these sources are HEAVILY
ANNOTATED
3. We will read for 20 minutes (document 1-4 for EQ #1)
4. Discuss Questions

HW-- Finish EQ #2 (documents 1-2) then complete the tchart and thesis statement. This will be collected on
Tuesday.

Brothers; Money, to us, is of no value, and to most of us

unknown and no consideration whatever can induce us to
sell the lands on which we get sustenance for our women
and children We desire you to consider Brothers, that our
only demand, is the peaceable possession of a small part of
our once great Country. Look back and view the lands from
from whence we have been driven to this spot, we can
retreat no further, because the country behind hardly
affords food for its present inhabitants. Delegates from a
number of Indian groups in the Northwest Territory to the U.S.
commissioners, 1793

Impact?
This country was once covered with buffalo, elk,
deer, antelope, and we had plenty to eat. But now,
since the white man has made a road across our
land and has killed off our game, we are hungry and
there is nothing left for us to eat. Our women and
children cry for food and we have no food to give
them.-Washakie- a Shoshoni Chief, 1855

Why was Texas a desired territory?

List the names

and dates of the
eight major
territorial gains the
United States
made after 1783.
What was the last
territorial gain in
the mainland US?
In what decade did
the United States
gain the most
territory?*Write
answers in notebook

Quick write:

Do you think that American Westward

expansion was just? List two specific
reasons for or against westward
expansion.

Indian Removal Policy

To recognize the Indian ownership of the limitless prairies

and forests of this continent is to consider the dozen filthy
savages who hunted at long intervals over a territory of
1000 square miles as owning it outright It implies a similar
recognition of the claims of every white hunter, or
wandering cattleman In fact, the mere statement of the
case is sufficient to show the absurdity of asserting that the
land really belonged to the Indians. The different tribes
have always been utterly unable to define their own
boundaries Their claims all conflicted with one another.

"My reason teaches me that land cannot be

sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to
live upon. So long as they occupy and
cultivate it, they have a right to the soil.
Nothing can be sold but such things as can
be carried away"
"We do not own the freshness of the air or
the sparkle of the water. How can you buy
them from us?"

"What is this you call property? It cannot be

the earth, for the land is our mother,
nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish
and all men. The woods, the streams,
everything on it belongs to everybody and is
for the use of all. How can one man say it
belongs only to him?"

How many
countries claimed
territory in North
America in 1800?
Which two
countries claimed
the largest
territory in North
America?
*Write answers in
notebook

Think about the

previous map.
Approx. how
many tribes
occupied the
Louisiana
territory?
What large,
regional
categories are
labeled. List
them
*Write answers
in notebook

List the names

and dates of the
eight major
territorial gains the
United States
made after 1783.
What was the last
territorial gain in
the mainland US?
In what decade did
the United States
gain the most
territory?*Write
answers in notebook