Manifest Destiny

Although many tribes decided to try and coexist in a civil way with the settlers, with this came some refusal to cooperate. This resulted in forced removal and violence, for example-the trail of tears, which ended in turmoil for many natives.

Political

Monroe doctrine 1823 - policy of manifest destiny. US should extend from sea to shining sea

Mexican American War - Won and US gained territory

Indian Removal Act - 1830 Andrew Jackson. Indians forced to relocate because of US westward expansion

I can explain how Manifest Destiny affected women.

Now lets see what you can remember about Manifest Destiny!

Objective Questions:

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Describe the assumptions made about native americans by the Americans and why indian removal was so important to them.

Many settlers felt that in order to expand west the "indians" as they called them had to be removed. They referred to them as barbaric, uncivilized creatures who need to be taught the correct way to live. Indian removal was Jackson's way of peacefully trying to get the Indian tribes east of the Mississippi to trade their land for land in the west, however few of the tribes actually made the trade

Objective Questions

LT 1

Analyze this document and describe; how the presidency of Andrew Jackson affected the ideals and realities of manifest destiny referring to the native americans.

I can depict how Manifest Destiny impacted Native Americans.

Native Americans and the settlers tried to make treaties, but compromise was a huge issue, since each party would feel a little cheated.

For native Americans more losing land in the east to gain land in the west ultimately did not work because many didn't want to leave their civilizations or their resources.

Now how about some essay questions?

Analyze how Manifest Destiny ideals impacted America throughout the years.

1. Political

wars -> Mexican American War

acts -> Indian Removal Acts

2. Social

women -> cult of domesticity and increase of influence of women in society

rural to urban life -> population boomed

3. Economic

LT 4

Manifest Destiny, Women, and Industry

Women in the workforce then and now

New inventions created new jobs for women in the workforce.

Women who had previously been confined to the household, were now working. Women romanticized the idea of having a job and being independent.

How does this relate to Manifest Destiny?

This is a sketch by Charles Dana Gibson called " The Weaker Sex." The Gibson Girls glorified women's independence.

textile industry boomed

Women expanded their influence in the economic realm through their introduction into the workforce.

However, later, women started to undermine this ideology with the Cult of Domesticity.

Frances Willard

• temperance reformer & women's suffragist

Jane Addams

• created the Hull House 1889 (American settlement house, mostly for immigrants)

Both took their work/ideals into political, public social and cultural realms. They fought for the rights the felt they deserved.

-> This relates to Manifest Destiny in a cultural sense because women were expanding their influence in society.

The ideology for women during this time was that their duty was to the home and children.

Women and children moved west along with their husbands.

Manifest Destiny, Women, and Ideals

How does this picture describe how women were effected by Manifest Destiny?

To civilize communities and protect morals, women developed schools, churches and other programs.

This is a picture of the "Mercer Girls", who were teachers recruited from the East Coast (1864)

Later, women also civilized communities and protected morals through the temperance movement and the creation of asylums and settlement housing.

Jane Addams

-> created the Hull House (1889) (a settlement house)

Frances Willard

->a temperance reformer

Because of this involvement, women's influence and power began to increase in society.

As the west was settled, men brought their wives and children to the frontier. Women established civilized living and morals for their families in the expanded territory.

-Manifest Destiny affected women's influence in society because women had the role of establishing the institutions of civilized living in their new communities.

-women established schools, churches and other programs.

-as a result, this increased their power and influence

Learning Targets

1.) LT1: I can describe how Manifest Destiny impacted Native Americans

2.) LT2: I can summarize the economic social, and political effects of Manifest Destiny on America .

3.) LT3: I can explain how Manifest Destiny established slavery as a Major issue in America .

4.) LT 4: I can explain how Manifest Destiny affected women.

LT 3

African American slaves helped build

the economic foundation to the new nations

The expansion of slavery became the most

important issue in the 1848 presidential election.

The production of cotton solidified

the central importance of slvery to the

South's economy.

America's westward expansion, along with a growing abolition movement in the North, provoked a great debate over slavery and eventually tore the nation apart

This picture depicts the unity, and family many slave owners justified they were somewhat creating. Slave owners saw themselves as "care givers," to slaves and felt it was the best option for African Americans to live this way as oppose to being in the North where they wouldn't make a living.

I can explain how Manifest Destiny established slavery as a major issue in America.

Analyze this document and explain how slave owners might have felt slave auctioning was a key factor in their process of owning slaves.

2.) Farming

Economic

1.) Farmers - working longer hours due to market, yield, and average increase (market expansion)

Social

1.) Cultural diffusion - US having foreign relations to expand markets

LT2

1.) Lowell Mills Women

Economic

1.) Woman - working in factories while men left for war

The economic, social and political impacts of Manifest Destiny.