Bellringer: EOCT Review Questions

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Bellringer EOCT Review Questions

• What time period featured new technology and
  economic change?
• Who invented the Cotton Gin and interchangeable
  parts?
• How did the Industrial Revolution impact both the
  northern and southern United States? How did it
  impact western territories?

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b. Describe the westward growth of the United
States include the emerging concept of Manifest
Destiny.
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Opening

1. Write down 5 details that stand out to you in
   this painting.
2. What is the message of this painting?

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Manifest Destiny

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• John L OSullivan, newspaper editor
•   Away, away with all these cobweb tissues of
  rights of discovery, exploration, settlement,
  contiguity.Our claim is by the right of our
  manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the
  whole of the continent which Providence has given
  us for the development of the great experiment of
  liberty and federative self government entrusted
  to us.Oregon can never be to England anything
  but a mere hunting ground for furs and
  peltriesIn our hands it must fast fill in with a
  population destined to establish a noble young
  empire
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Effects of Western Expansion

• Now that more land in the western areas of the
  continent belonged to America (a la the Louisiana
  Purchase), some of those areas were populated
  enough and were ready to become a state
• Who remembers what law (first established in the
  Articles of Confederation) established the
  procedure for adding new states into the Union?

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Manifest Destiny

• The idea that God wanted the Americans to settle
  the west
• Several inventions, such as the mechanical reaper
  and the steel plow, opened up the Great Plains to
  farmers

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Manifest Destiny

• Between 1800 and 1860, the United States more
  than doubled in size, and the number of states
  expanded from 16 to 33.
• Americans headed west for 3 main reason
• 1 - the desire to own their own land (Homestead
  Act)
• 2- the discovery of gold and other valuable
  resources (California Gold Rush)
• 3- the belief that the US was supposed to
  stretch across North America (Manifest Destiny)

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Manifest Destiny

• Mormons (a religious group) Settled Utah in
  hopes of finding religious freedom
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vm7xGsg5qegYfeature
  related (watch only 1st 4 min..the rest is
  music)
• In the 1820s, Americans began to settle in Texas,
  which was owned by Mexico, conflicts would lead
  to a war with Mexico

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Manifest Destiny

• 1800 387,000 American settlers beyond
  Appalachian Mtns.
• 1820 2.4 million settlers
• What does Manifest Destiny mean?
• God had given Americans the right to settle from
  coast to coast on the American Continent

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Oregon Trail
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Trails West