Manifest Destiny: Part 1 ["Harms vs. Benefits"]

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Manifest Destiny: Part 1 ["Harms vs. Benefits"]

Last updated almost 3 years ago

4 questions

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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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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
"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
"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

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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.

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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.

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.

According to Charles Hilliard's 2021 painting "Reversing Manifest Destiny", which features portray "potential benefits" of traditional Indigenous lifeways impacting modern American.

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
"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
"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

Pro-Westward Expansion
Anti-Westward Expansion

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.

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.

"Lady Destiny" being the ultimate judge of the annual "Horses vs. Wagons vs. Stagecoaches vs. Trains" Races.

"Lady Destiny" bringing Daylight Savings Time to the lesser daylight hours of the western territories.

"Lady Destiny" carrying the Holy Bible and spreading Christian ideas out west.

"Lady Destiny" guiding advancement of new technologies like the telegraph, railroad, and steamboats.

"Lady Destiny" driving out indigenous peoples and wildlife from their native lands for white Americans to come in and settle.

"Lady Destiny" guiding white settlers to expand west into new territories for new opportunities.

"Lady Destiny" flying fabulously and rocking a tiara like an absolute goddess. 

According to Charles Hilliard's 2021 painting "Reversing Manifest Destiny", which features portray "potential benefits" of traditional Indigenous lifeways impacting modern American.

"White Buffalo Calf Woman" combatting pollution caused by industrialization.

"White Buffalo Calf Woman" bringing back the health and strength of the land and the people.

"White Buffalo Calf Woman" guiding native warriors east to reclaim their former homelands by force.

"White Buffalo Calf Woman" confronting manmade natural disasters as harmful effects of climate change.

"White Buffalo Calf Woman" ripping down all of the powerlines to wipe out the East Coast's power grid.

"White Buffalo Calf Woman" feeding a bunch of hunters to that bear.

"White Buffalo Calf Woman" bringing back protected wildlife once hunted to near extinction.

Pro-Westward Expansion

Anti-Westward Expansion