DIRECTIONS: Using your "Manifest Destiny" interactive notemaker from class, answer the questions below to the best of your ability. Remember to "check your answer" for any questions that let you, and that Mr. H will have to manually grade the "For Mastery" short written response section of the assessment.
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Question 1
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According to John Gast's 1872 painting "American Progress", which features portray "potential benefits" of westward expansion according to the American philosophy of Manifest Destiny.
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Question 2
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According to Charles Hilliard's 2021 painting "Reversing Manifest Destiny", which features portray "potential benefits" of traditional Indigenous lifeways impacting modern American.
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Question 3
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Drag the quotations on the left to the correct category on the right (pro/anti expansion).
"The time has come for everyone to stop treating Texas as an alien, and to stop thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”- American writer John O'Sullivan
"Only seven years ago, we made a treaty by which we were assured the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also."
- Lakota tribal leader Sitting Bull
"And We do further declare it to be Our Royal Will and Pleasure, to reserve under our Sovereignty, Protection, and Dominion, for the use of the said Indians, all the Lands and Territories not included within the Limits of Our said Three new Governments, as also all the Lands and Territories lying to the Westward of the Sources of the Rivers which fall into the Sea from the West and Northwest." - King George III of England
"In tracing the probable expansion of the human race from east to west, the mind finds an agreeable resting place on its western limits."- American mapmaker John Melish
Pro-Westward Expansion
Anti-Westward Expansion
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Question 4
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FOR MASTERY: In a short written response, describe the American idea of "Manifest Destiny", and explain how it was harmful or beneficial and to whom.