1. Unit 7 – Further Expansion and Differences

2. What is manifest destiny?
Kick off
Page 357 #1-2

3. Gaining access to the Pacific Ocean
What countries were claiming Oregon Country?
What resolution did the Adams-Onis Treaty create?
Describe a day in the life of a mountain man.
Why did people want to travel to the Oregon?
What was the cause of the Whitman massacre?
If you were planning on going to Oregon, would you still have gone after the massacre occurred?
What did “Fifty-Four Fourty or Fight” mean?

4. What is manifest destiny?
Wrap up
Page 358 #6

5. How did Florida and Texas become states?
Kick off
What was the final deciding factor that led Florida to become a state?

6. Statehood Why did the population in Florida begin to grow?
Why did Mexico begin to allow Americans to make their homes on their land?
How did the conflicts between Mexico and the USA first begin?
What occurred at the Alamo?
Why was Texas its own independent country prior to becoming a state?
When and how did Texas finally become a state?

7. Chapter 13 Quiz

8. How did Florida and Texas become states?
Page 365
#1-3

9. Why did the USA go to war with Mexico?
Kick off
Once Texas became a state, what conflict do you think could have cause a war between the USA and Mexico?
Do you think that the USA had a good reason to continue to seek for “Manifest Destiny”?

10. Fulfilling our Manifest Destiny
The New Mexico Territory
California’s Spanish Culture
Conflict Begins

11. Why did the USA go to war with Mexico?
Wrap up
If you were the president of the USA would you allow California to use the “bear flag” as the state flag?
Use information from the text to support and explain your answer.

12. What was life like in California?
The Gold Rush!
Read pages
Design a postcard based on your reading
Write a postcard as a gold rusher back to your family in the east coast.
Make sure to describe what panning for gold is like, how much gold you have found, and what life is like in San Francisco.

13. Religion in Utah Create a timeline of Mormon history in the USA.
Be sure to include the dates below, and at least 4 images.
1830
1839
1844
1846
1847
1848
1896

14. Chapter 14

15. What new inventions came about in the 1800’s?
Kick off
Why do you think Northern states may have benefited more from new technologies and inventions?

16. Inventors and Their Inventions
Purpose, Benefit
Elias Howe
Robert Fulton
(not mentioned in text)
Clipper Ships
Peter Cooper
Samuel Morse
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick

17. What new inventions came about in the 1800’s?
Wrap Up
What invention from this lesson do you think had the biggest impact on the development of the USA? Explain your answer and provide support.

18. What was the north like in the mid 1800’s?
Kick off –
Define
Trade Union
Strike
Prejudice
Discrimination
Famine
Nativist

19. People of the North
On a separate paper,
Do page 392 #1-6
Turn in for a grade.

20. What drove the Southern economy?
Kick off
Why was cotton such a big part of the South's economy?
Geography Connection
Page 394 #1-2

21. Southern Cotton Kingdom
Effects
Importance
Cotton
Factories
Transportation

22. What drove the Southern economy?
Wrap Up
Lesson 3 Review
Page 396 #2 & 3

23. What was slavery like in the South?
Kick off – in the South there were 4 types of farms; describe each of them below and their relation to slavery.
Yeomen
Tenant Farmers
Rural Poor
Plantation Owners

24. What was slavery like in the South?
Kick off – in the South there were 4 types of farms; describe each of them below and their relation to slavery.
Yeomen
Tenant Farmers
Rural Poor
Plantation Owners

25. Slavery Topic Description Reflection African American Family Life
African American Culture
African American Religion
Slave Codes
Fighting Back
Escaping Slavery
The Southern Cities

26. What was slavery like in the South?
As a plantation owner it was likely that you would have owned slaves.
How do you think you would have handled the issue of slavery at the time?

27. Chapter 14 REVIEW
When did many immigrants come to the USA from Germany? Ireland?
Why were there high prices for cotton?
What form of transportation was used in the South to transport their goods?
What is John Deere known for?
Describe the Train Wreck of 1856.
What states were in the Deep South?
Who were the nativists?
What were spirituals?
Why were trade/labor unions established?
Who was Harriet Tubman?
How did the telegraph help with industrial growth?
Why did the Irish immigrate to the USA?
List some of the new inventions of the 1800’s.
What were slave codes?
Who were the yeomen