MANIFEST DESTINY SETTLING

WEST

Chapter 16

How did the expansion of the United States affect people inside and outside the country?

Objectives (I can…): explain why and how the United States

acquired key territories,

and describe how this affected the people already living in each region.

describe the difficulties individuals faced when exploring the West.

How did each group feel about what took place?

How did you feel when…

Group 1 got first choice of seats.

Then some of you had to give up your seat to a Group 2 member.

And last, Group1 people still seated had to get up and stand in the back of the room with the other Group 1 members.

How did the expansion of the United States affect people inside and outside the country?

In the years after the United States was formed, Americans thought that their way of life was more civilized and advanced than that of American Indians or Mexicans who also lived in North America. Remember the Proclamation of 1763???

Americans believed that it was their obvious fate, or Manifest Destiny, to extend the territory of the United States west across North America to the Pacific Coast (towards California – which wasn’t California…yet.)

How do you think the American Indians might have felt about the American

expansion to the west?

Simulating Westward Expansion of the United States in the 1800s

Look at the map on the floor. It represents the territories of the United States in

the 1800s.

You are going to be in six groups that settle the territories acquired by the U.S. between 1783 to 1853.

You will play roles of American settlers by claiming land in the regions shown on the floor map.

Simulating Westward Expansion of the United States in the 1800s

You will play roles of American settlers by claiming land within one of the regions shown on the floor map.

To “claim land” your group will walk a region and sit on the floor, with your legs crossed, as many of you on the carpet as possible.

Everyone MUST listen carefully, because there will be several occasions that I will announce options you will have.

How did the expansion of the United States affect people inside and outside the country?

Simulation Debriefing:

How did you feel during the activity?

What happened to the floor map as the activity progressed?

What do you think the chairs were supposed to represent? The chairs were suppose to represent American

Indians and former Mexican citizens who were living in western territories acquired by the U.S. between 1783 and 1853.

How did the expansion of the United States affect people inside and outside the country?

Simulation Debriefing:

What do you think happened to the people already living in the areas when the new settlers moved in?

How do you think Americans might have justified their actions when acquiring territories in the West?

Do you think it was fair for Americans to take over these territories? Why or why not?

What do you see here? What types of transportation do you see?

Why do you think people appear to be moving in the same direction? Why do you think people wanted to move west of the Mississippi

River during the 1800s? What do you think the American Indians (right-hand corner) thought

of the new settlers?

Manifest Destiny

Look at the picture in section 16.2 – page 216. How is this scene similar to the previous

picture? What do you think the woman floating above

the scene represents?

This image is called American Progress painted around 1872 by artist John Gast.

The woman represents the young American nation completing its manifest destiny. She holds a schoolbook as she leads settlers west to new lands.

Manifest Destiny

What signs of American technology come along with the settlers? Railroads and telegraph lines

What different types of transportation and jobs held by settlers does the painter show?

Note: The progress of the settlers appears to be chasing away American Indians and wildlife, such as buffalo, bears, and deer.

Manifest Destiny

Read the remainder of the chapter and complete your Reading Notetaker chapter 16.

Follow the directions for each section – be sure to find the most important information about each territory.

You are explaining how the U.S. acquired key territories, and then depict (or illustrate), because of the westward expansion, what happened to the people already living in each region on your map.

I will model first!

Manifest Destiny/Settling West

Imagine one day, you and your family were forced to leave your home and there is NOTHING you can do about it!

You have one hour to get as many of your belongings as you can and leave.

What would you think? How would you feel about it? Where would you go?

What do you see in this image? What words would you use to describe their

situation? Who do you think might be at most risk in this

scene? Why?

Trail of Tears This scene shows the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears. Because

many Americans wanted to settle on land reaching to the Mississippi River, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Under this law, American Indian tribes were to trade their lands east of the Mississippi for lands west of the river.

Some tribes accepted and moved west. Others refused to give up their homelands. Among the tribes pressured to leave were the Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and Cherokees.

One by one, these tribes were forced to move west. Finally in 1838, the U.S. army MADE the Cherokees, who were

still living in the South, march from Georgia to what is present-day Oklahoma. About one-fourth of the 16,000 Cherokees died from the harsh conditions along the way. This journey became known as the Trail of Tears.

Indian Removal Act

Indian REMOVAL Act

Each table will read through four different resources (1) Indian Removal, 2) Cherokee vs. Georgia, 3) Worcester vs. Georgia, 4) Treaty of Echota) about this horrible social injustice – the Indian Removal Act. Pair up if needed.

Each person will be an expert on one of the resources.

You will report to the rest of the group what you had learned about Indian Removal.

Indian REMOVAL Act

What did you learn from reading: 1) Indian Removal 2) Cherokee vs. Georgia 3) Worcester vs. Georgia 4) Treaty of Echota

The Native Americans were NOT seen as citizens of the United States!

They were DENIED rights and having a voice.

Indian REMOVAL Act

Complete Resource 4B. List the different perspectives about the

advantages and disadvantages of the Indian Removal. Native Americans versus U.S. government

The Native Americans suffered greatly when the Indian removal took place.

The removal of the Five Civilized Tribes came to be known as the Trail of Tears.

Indian REMOVAL Act Listen to these quotes by the soldiers who

witnessed this horrific event in history.

“The Cherokees are a peaceable, harmless people, but you may drive them to desperation, and this treaty cannot be carried into effect except by the strong arm of force.” –Major William M. Davis, 1837, sent to carry out removal of Cherokee

What does this quote means? (Answer this in your social studies notebook).

Indian REMOVAL Act Listen to these quotes by the soldiers who witnessed this horrific

event in history.

“I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven into the stockades (cages). I saw them loaded like cattle…into wagons, in the cold rain, heading west. The sufferings of the Cherokees were awful. The trail was a trail of death. And I have known as many as twenty-two of them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold and exposure.” –Private John G. Burnett, Cherokee Indian Removal 1838-39

What does this quote mean? (Write your answer in you notebook.)