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MANIFEST DESTINY

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Compelling Questions:  

Was Manifest Destiny an actual belief, or was it an excuse used to justify the actions of our nation as it expanded westward?

How should history textbooks portray Manifest Destiny... as a heroic movement movement to settle a howling wilderness, as an invasion of foreigners motivated by greed,  or something else altogether?



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Art Interpretation
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O'Sullivan Primary Source
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Manifest Destiny in Paint and Print
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Manifest Destiny From a Different Perspective
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Key Decision: 1803
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TJ: What did I just buy?
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Jefferson's Instructions to Lewis
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Lewis & Clark Primary Sources
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Teton Sioux Key Decision
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Assessing the Corps of Discovery
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15.6 Reading Questions
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Online Resources:

MANIFEST DESTINY:
Manifest Destiny Sites: http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/md_introduction.html
                                   http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=311 

"Crash Course" in Manifest Desinty video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkdF8pOFUfI

APUSH Manifest Desinty Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6CRsl54Hg0


LOUISIANA PURCHASE:
Louisiana Purchase Sites:   http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/louisiana-purchase
                                           http://www.ushistory.org/us/20c.asp

TED Ed video on the  Louisiana Purchase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMh8RCqJf9U

Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g14FQfMNmLo

LEWIS & CLARK:
Lewis and Clark: National Geographic Documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRV896tEnKE

Lewis & Clark Jouney Log-  An Interactive Website (National Geographic):           http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/journey_intro.html

Lewis & Clark Journey of the Corp of Discovery (PBS):   http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

TEXAS:
Why Mexico Banned Immigration from the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAZNROTU9Hc

How Texas Got It's Shape: 
http://www.history.com/shows/how-the-states-got-their-shapes/videos/how-texas-got-its-shape

Texas & the Alamo: http://www.history.com/topics/texas/videos#the-alamo

Deconstructing History: Alamo:  http://www.history.com/topics/texas/videos#deconstructing-history-alamo

WAR WITH MEXICO:
Book talk by historian Amy Greenberg: author of A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtfayzhBEYo

Mexican-American War Documentaty (History Channel): http://vimeo.com/64954890

PBS Mexican War site:  http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html

PBS Mexican War Documentary Play List: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JskCiV60ePE&list=PL1sLYoQ_9nkabzdGFcy1_9WOZtU4jnkMz&index=2

Westward Expansion Maps 1803 - 1853  

MAP 1:  Louisiana Purchase/Lewis & Clark

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Map 2:  Expansion through 1836

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Map 3:  The Texas Revolution 1835-1836

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Map 4:  Oregon  Territory Dispute 1818-1846

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Map 5: Oregon 1846

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Map 6: War with Mexico 1846 - 1848

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Click here for the full size map: http://www.ilibrarian.net/history/mexican_american_war_map_lg.jpg

Map 7:  Expansion 1803 - 1853

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