Manifest Destiny Assignment

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8.H.3.1 Explain how migration and immigration contributed to the development of North Carolina and the United States from colonization to
contemporary times (e.g. westward movement, African slavery, Trail of Tears, the Great Migration and Ellis and Angel Island). 

8.G.1.1 Explain how location and place have presented opportunities and challenges for the movement of people, goods, and ideas in North Carolina and the United States. 

Manifest Destiny

In the nineteenth century, the United States vastly expanded the size of its territory. How was ideology used to justify this expansion? Using nineteenth-century maps and art, consider the roots of American exceptionalism.

 

You will analyze a map and read from primary source documents, then answer questions in complete sentences.

 

1816 John Melish Map-

1816 John Melish Map-1.PNG    

Now Answer the following two questions in complete sentences:

1. According to Melish, why did he decide to draw the map of the United States this way?

2. How does this relate to Manifest Destiny?

 

Now read and analyze the following primary sources, then answer the questions in complete sentences:

Manifest destiny primary sources SHEG.PNG  

 

Now Answer the following questions in complete sentences:

3. What does John O'Sullivan think America stands for?

4. What, according to John O'Sullivan, is America's mission?

5. Based on these two documents, how did Americans feel about expanding westward?

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