Westward Expansion

Day 15
Westward Expansion Quiz For Real
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Following the quiz:
Move To Groups To Add information to Explain Everything: 1853 Gadsden Purchase


Questions That Need Answers

• Date of Expansion
• Prior Occupants (Specific People/Tribes) AND Prior Owners
• Name and Date each state was allowed into the Union because of the event
• Two MAJOR events that arise before the CIVIL WAR in the expansion area - Describe - Lasting impact
• Are these territories FOR or AGAINST slavery?
• How do people in these areas make a living?  What do they do?
• One important PERSON associated with the territory...What did they do that was important?
• MAPS as a visual of states and dates

Completed All of the information?  Start recording your slides for Explain Everything
TEST THURSDAY!!!





Day 14  
Test Thursday!!! You May Use Explain Everything, but ONLY one class period.

Group Work:
1846 Mexican American War
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe
1848 Mexican Cession

Questions That Need Answers

• Date of Expansion
• Prior Occupants (Specific People/Tribes) AND Prior Owners
• Name and Date each state was allowed into the Union because of the event
• Two MAJOR events that arise before the CIVIL WAR in the expansion area - Describe - Lasting impact
• Are these territories FOR or AGAINST slavery?
• How do people in these areas make a living?  What do they do?
• One important PERSON associated with the territory...What did they do that was important?
• MAPS as a visual of states and dates

Day 1
2 Apps 2 Be Used

U.S. History Timeline

Explain Everything

Clip Art To Be Used

Copyright Basics - Give items that you learned.

Questions That Need Answers

• Date of Expansion
• Prior Occupants (Specific People/Tribes) AND Prior Owners
• Name and Date each state was allowed into the Union because of the event
• Two MAJOR events that arise before the CIVIL WAR in the expansion area - Describe - Lasting impact
• Are these territories FOR or AGAINST slavery?
• How do people in these areas make a living?  What do they do?
• One important PERSON associated with the territory...What did they do that was important?
• MAPS as a visual of states and dates

Day 2

Major Events: Treaty of Paris and Louisiana Purchase





Day 3
Louisiana Purchase

• Two MAJOR events that arise before the CIVIL WAR in the expansion area - Describe - Lasting impact 
• How do people in these areas make a living?  What do they do? 

Day 4 and Day 5

• Westward Expansion
• War of 1812 PBS Movie

Watch 1812 Long Tease on PBS. See more from The War of 1812.

Voice Recorder >>



 Day 5 Red River Basin

• Resource 1
• Resource 2
• Who Owned The Land
• Westward Expansion Interactive Map
• Google Earth "Red River Basin"

Day 6 1819 Acquisition of Florida (Adams-Onis Treaty) 1819

PAGE 407-408 in textbook

• Short History
• Adams-Onis Treaty
• PBS Summary
• Great Map Showing Extension of U.S. Territory

Day 7 Monroe Doctrine

Blogging!  Good, intelligent arguments!  Should we fence our borders to protect America?

Day 8

• Each student will have a different state: GET THE STATE
• Google: "how did ________________ get its name"  (Tweet the answer!)
• Watch First Two Sections of how States Got Their Shapes
• First Section
• Second Section
• Last Name Begins With A - F  Watch Section 3
• Last Name Begins With G - L Watch Section 4
• Last Name Begins With M - R Watch Section 5
• Last Name Begins With S - Z Watch Section 6
• ALL STUDENTS watch Section 7
• Name the states in your sections of video and describe how each got it shape in a blog post.  Including pictures will enhance your post!

How the states were formed!

Day 9, 10, 11
Effects of Expansion

Tribes of Wisconsin 

Day 12
1845 Texas Annexation

• Date of Expansion
• Prior Occupants (Specific People/Tribes) AND Prior Owners
• Name and Date each state was allowed into the Union because of the event
• Two MAJOR events that arise before the CIVIL WAR in the expansion area - Describe - Lasting impact
• Are these territories FOR or AGAINST slavery?
• How do people in these areas make a living?  What do they do?
• One important PERSON associated with the territory...What did they do that was important?
• MAPS as a visual of states and dates

Day 13

Oregon Treaty