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Unit Goal: Students will be able to analyze and evaluate how the United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them.

Work, Exchange, and Technology: How did the growth of mass manufacturing in the rapidly urbanizing North affect definitions of and relationships between workers, and those for whom they worked?  How did the continuing dominance of agriculture and the slave system affect southern social, political, and economic life?

Peopling: How did the continued movement of individuals and groups into, out of, and within the United States shape the development of new communities and the evolution of old communities?

Politics and Power: How did the growth of ideas of mass democracy, including such concerns as expanding suffrage, public education, abolitionism, and care for the needy affect political life and discourse?

America in the World: How did the United States use diplomatic and economic means to project its power in the western hemisphere?  How did foreign governments and individuals describe and react to the new America Nation?

Environment and Geography: How did environmental and geographic factors affect the development of sectional economics and identities?

Ideas, Beliefs, and Cultures: How did the idea of democratization shape and reflect American arts, literature, ideals, and culture?

Tuesday

We will continue to read chapter 15 today.

Monday

Today we are going to quickly review chapter 17 (and preview - the next Unit).

Then, as a class we will begin to read chapter 15, talk about what is important in each section, and apply it to the UNIT GOAL:

Unit Goal: Students will be able to analyze and evaluate how the United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them.

Wednesday

Today we need to take notes on Manifest Destiny (a list of thing that happened between 1800-1848), and then I will break you up into groups and have you develop short projects around the rest of the chapter that we haven't covered.

Each group needs to create a powerpoint that covers the summary of their information.  Two visual aids.  An additional source of information - such as a website on the Oregon Trail, etc.  And try and analyze the information in this section with the Unit Goal

Unit Goal: Students will be able to analyze and evaluate how the United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them.

Group 1 - Oregon Fever Populates Oregon

Group 2 - A Mandate for Manifest Destiny and Polk the Purposeful

Group 3 - Misunderstandings with Mexico and American Blood on American Soil

Group 4 - The Mastering of Mexico and Fighting Mexico for Peace

Group 5 - Profit and Loss in Mexico

U.S. History

Today we are going to go over your study questions and continue with your reading.

Homework: Finish the chapter for tomorrow. 

Chapter 17 Review Questions

The Accession of "Tyler Too"

Know:    William Henry Harrison, John Tyler

14.        "Yet Tyler...should never have consented to run on the ticket."  Explain this quote from your text.

John Tyler:   A President Without a Party

Know:    "His Accidency,"  Henry Clay

15.        What proof can you give of Tyler's unpopularity?  What did Tyler do that made Whigs so angry with him?

A War of Words with England

Know:    Caroline, Creole

16.             Explain at least four causes of tension between the US and Great Britain in the 1830's and 1840's.

Manipulating the Maine Maps

Know:    Aroostook War, Lord Ashburton, Daniel Webster

17.        What was the result of the Ashburton-Webster Treaty?

The Lone Star of Texas Shines Alone

Know:    Lone Star Republic

18.        How did Mexico view Texas from 1836 to 1845?

The Belated Texas Nuptials

Know:    Conscience Whigs

19.        Why did some hesitate to annex Texas?  Why was it finally admitted to the Union?

Oregon Fever Populates Oregon

Know:    54 40', Willamette Valley, Oregon Trail

20.        What change with Oregon from 1819 to 1844 caused the British to become more willing to negotiate a final boundary?

A Mandate (?) for Manifest Destiny

Know:    James K. Polk, Dark Horse

21.        What part did Manifest Destiny play in the 1844 election?

Polk the Purposeful

22.        What were Polk's four goals?  Assess his degree of success.

Misunderstandings with Mexico

Know:    John Slidell, Nueces River

23.        What were the sources of the strained relationship between the U.S. and Mexico?

American Blood on American (?) Soil

Know:    Zachary Taylor, Spot Resolutions

24.        Explain some of the reasons Congress declared war on Mexico.

The Mastering of Mexico

Know:    Stephen Kearney, John C. Fremont, Bear Flag Republic, Winfield Scott

25.        What battles were fought to defeat Mexico?

Fighting Mexico for Peace

Know:    Nicholas P. Trist, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

26.        Why did some people oppose the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Profit and Loss in Mexico

Know:    Wilmot Proviso

27.        What positive and negative outcomes resulted for the United States from the Mexican-American War?

Makers of America: The Californios

Know:    Californios, Father Junipero Serra, Franciscans, Secularization, Anglos
28.        How did the Californios gain and then lose power?

Manifest Destiny

We will review the 1st 10 pages of the chapter 17, and then continue reading.

Please don't forget your Unit Goal:

Unit Goal: Students will be able to analyze and evaluate how the United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them. 

This video should help you with the Unit Goal:  

Or the Unit Thematic Questions:

Work, Exchange, and Technology: How did the growth of mass manufacturing in the rapidly urbanizing North affect definitions of and relationships between workers, and those for whom they worked?  How did the continuing dominance of agriculture and the slave system affect southern social, political, and economic life?

Peopling: How did the continued movement of individuals and groups into, out of, and within the United States shape the development of new communities and the evolution of old communities?

Politics and Power: How did the growth of ideas of mass democracy, including such concerns as expanding suffrage, public education, abolitionism, and care for the needy affect political life and discourse?

America in the World: How did the United States use diplomatic and economic means to project its power in the western hemisphere?  How did foreign governments and individuals describe and react to the new America Nation?

Environment and Geography: How did environmental and geographic factors affect the development of sectional economics and identities?

Ideas, Beliefs, and Cultures: How did the idea of democratization shape and reflect American arts, literature, ideals, and culture?