Impacts of Expansion on Native Americans - Day 63

Impacts of Expansion on Native Americans - Day 63

Introduction

Yesterday, we learned what started it all. Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Trail, also known as the First Doorway to the West, was famous for being the route that thousands of settlers would use to cross the Appalachian Mountains into the western frontier. Today we will learn why European Americans believed they could take land in North America.


Manifest Destiny

Before you research the term Manifest Destiny, consider the image below. Click on each question mark to reflect on the illustration.

The print below shows Uncle Sam and Columbia standing at the entrance to the "U.S. Foundling Asylum" as a basket of crying children labeled "Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii, [and] Philippine" is presented to them by arms labeled "Manifest Destiny". Within the walls of the asylum are four children labeled "Texas, New Mexico, Cal. [and] Alaska" playing together. 

 


Assignment IconImpacts of Expansion on Native Americans 

Directions:

Today, fill in the information for MANIFEST DESTINY:

  1. Continue using the Google Document: Your name’s Impacts Research
  2. Your name’s Impacts Research
  3. Be sure to use a safe search engine.
  4. You will use this document for the next four days.
  5. Click NEXT to submit your work so far. 

Manifest Destiny in chart.

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