Content Standard: 11.3 Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting moral, social, and political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty.

CCST: 11.2.2 - Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.

WHST: 11.12.9 - Draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Assignments to meet the standard: 1 week

Learning Outcomes

After watching this lesson, you should be able to:

• Define the Oregon Trail
• Understand Americans' idea of manifest destiny and their reasons for desiring expansion
• Summarize the various ways Americans achieved expansion

Once you are done with this lesson, you should be able to:

Manifest Destiny - Lesson Plan

Videos:

Manifest Destiny:

• The Oregon Trail: Westward Migration to the Pacific Ocean - 7:05
• Manifest Destiny’s Texas Annexation Problem - 5:17
• President John Tyler: American Expansion and Sectional Concerns - 10:08
• President James K. Polk’s Accomplishments in the Lower 48 States - 7:57
• The Mexican-American War, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo & the Wilmot Proviso - 7:34

Essential Question: What were the causes of the Mexican American War?

• Election of 1848 and the California Gold Rush - 7:34

Essential Question: When did the Mexican-American War take place and what is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• President Filimore and the Compromise of 1850 - 7:46

Essential Question: What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

• President Franklin Pierce’s Politics and Economics 6:29
• Essential Question: How did President Franklin Pierce view slavery?

Assessment

• Video quiz questions.
• Whiteboard check for understanding Qś
• DBQ - responses
• Report on Key Historical Figure

Quizzes Please note: students new to Pueblo can take their quizzes on Study.com - Continuing students with working LAUSD emails, will take the Video Lesson Quizzes on the LMS - Schoology.

Project: Differentiation for GATE students:

Select one of the following assessment projects write:

• A report about a key historical figure or figures and who they are, and their importance in the westward expansion. (More demanding, use creativity.)
• Complete the DBQ on Manifest Destiny and evaluate how the Native American population was affected and the challenges faced by the colonist moving westward toward the Pacific Ocean. Scaffold, higher order thinking skill development activity. Students will work on synthesis, evaluation, and reflection.