1. Warm Up # 9 Describe what the greater good can mean?
Can you be right when you are doing something wrong?

2. Announcements Test Grades Retakes, deadline 10/16
Multiple choice and Short answer
Retakes, deadline 10/16
Unit 2 Test Monday 10/10
Homework due same day

3. Manifest Destiny
Manifest: clear or obvious
Destiny: future or fate 3

4. "(It is)...our manifest destiny to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty."
In 1845 these words were written by John O'Sullivan, a democrat leader and editor of the New York newspaper 'The Morning Post'.
Questions to Answer:
1. What do you think O’Sullivan meant by this?
2. What do you think will be the impact of Manifest Destiny?

5. Schoolhouse Rock: Elbow Room 1976

6. What does it mean?
O'Sullivan expressed the belief that white Americans had a God-given right to occupy the entire North American continent
Not a new idea, nor was it just an American idea
Christopher Columbus and America
Spanish monarchs who colonized South America
Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock
British colonizing Australia and India

8. Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion
By the 1840s, the term “Manifest Destiny” is widely used
newspapers, debates, paintings and advertisements
becomes the leading arguments for westward expansion
Reasons for movement
East was crowded, people lured to the west
Promises of inexpensive land and open spaces
Discovery of gold in 1848

10. Jackson and Indian Removal

11. Background Information pg. 3
Read the info
Answer the prediction question

12. Indian Removal Act – Notes
Passed in 1830 by Jackson
Forced Indians onto reservations – land that was set aside for them
Most land was located in Oklahoma
Intend for Indians to become farmers/ranchers

13. Indian Removal Act – Notes
Within 10 years, more than 70,000 Indians had been moved
Trail of Tears
The routes that the Five Civilized Tribes traveled to get to Oklahoma
Cherokee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek

14. Indian Removal – Videos

15. Indian Removal – Recap 9:38-10:40

16. Indian Removal – Recap Answer What did the Indian Removal Act do?
How did this impact American Indians?
What was the government hoping to accomplish with Indian Removal?