Westward Expansion Unit Overview

Premise: Students will be able to identify the reasons for American expansion in the 19th Century and its impact on Native Peoples, women, African Americans, Mexicans, and Asians.

Learning Targets: Evaluates efforts to reduce discrepancies between key ideals and reality in the US. Understands and analyzes physical and cultural characteristics of places and regions in the US from the past. Analyzes how the environment has affected people and how people have affected the environment in the US in the past. Understands cultural diffusion in the US from the past. Understands and analyzes migration as a catalyst on the growth of the US in the past. Understands and analyzes how individuals and movements have shaped US history. Understands and analyzes how cultures and culture groups have contributed to US history. Understands and analyzes how technology and ideas have impacted US history. Analyzes and interprets historical materials from a variety of perspectives in US history. Analyzes multiple causal factors to create positions on major events in US history. Understands reasons based on evidence for a position on an issue or event. Evaluates the logic of positions in primary and secondary sources to interpret an issue or event.

Reading: Students will read selected sections from the text History Alive! US Through Industrialism, and may include the following documents as well as others: John O’Sullivan and Manifest Destiny; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1868, and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

Processing/Skills: Students will continue to develop the skills of analysis and inference of primary and secondary source materials, map reading, informed decision making based on multiple sources, and use levels of questioning to have a greater understanding of historical content.

Time frame: three to four weeks.

Quiz/test: Free Response Questions, one unit exam

Assignments: maps of American expansion in the 19th Century.

Define the following terms and identify the people, places, and concepts below on a sheet of paper. Give the definition and significance. Use a parenthetical citation for the page in History Alive you find the information and source for those not in the text. Those marked with * are not found in the History Alive text book. Each note is worth 2 points for a total of 48. You may add artwork on the page to help you remember if you like. Notes will be due 23 February 2017.

Louisiana Purchase *Cult of Domesticity Indian Removal Act Manifest Destiny Importance/impact of railroads *Corps of Discovery Gold Rush Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Mexican War annex ceded Oregon Trail reform Indian reservations boomtowns mountain men nativism fur trade *Indian boarding schools Oregon Country Homestead Act Indian Wars Chinese Exclusion Act role of missionaries