1. In response to video: “The west – Episode Two: Empire upon the Trails” (5:00 – 16:00) answer following questions in your notebooks:
(1) What were the motivations of the Mountain Men coming to the American West?
(2) Describe the lifestyles of the Mountain Men, and what usually happened at the yearly rendezvous?
(3) What does Lone Dog’s Winter Count depict?
(4) What does the video present regarding the Lakota peoples and their connection to the Black Hills?

2. Lone Dog’s Winter Count
High Dog’s Winter Count
Sam Kills Two

3. Traditional Lakota Lands
Native American Tribes w/ ties to Black Hills …
Oceti Sakowin / Seven Council Fires …
Origin of “Sioux” name …
Originated in the Black Hills?
Migration History …

4. “Manifest Destiny” handout
Answer these questions at the top of page in your notes:
(1) Summarize, what is Manifest Destiny?
(2) What are the examples mentioned in the handout regarding historical examples of Manifest Destiny?
(3) What ideas are presented in the painting “American Progress” (1872) by John Gast?
(4) How does the Mexican Cession, and other territorial expansion for that matter, contribute to the national tensions that would lead to the Civil War?

5. Closing of the Frontier in 1890
U.S. Census announces “there is no frontier anymore”

6. Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding
1836, first white women to cross the Continental Divide.
Established a medical / religions mission to Nez Perce.
1847, were murdered.

7. Missouri Compromise (1820)
Maine becomes a
free state
(2) Missouri becomes a slave state
(3) Slavery prohibited in the rest of Missouri Territory north of 36 d. 30’
(4) Slavery allowed into Arkansas Territory south of 36 d. 30’

9. New Spain

10. Spanish Catholic Missions
- Mission System …
- Conditions for Native Americans …

11. Spanish Catholic Mission System
Second Great Awakening
Versus
Spanish Catholic Mission System