Ch 26-3

Group Discussions

What was the point of issuing the Emancipation Proclamation when the United States government was not able, at the time, to enforce it?

Forming and supporting opinions: How did the following you with policies advance or hinder Democratic progress: Manifest Destiny, emancipation, and segregation? Explain your answer

Focus & Motivate

Discuss how students lives would be different if United States were split in two.

Objective:

Trace us expansion to the Pacific.

Describe the effects of the Civil War.

Analyze post-war economic expansion.

WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading

EQ: What was the point of issuing the Emancipation Proclamation when the United States government was not able, at that time, to enforce it?

Americans move west

Manifest destiny

Texas joins the United States

War with Mexico

Civil War test democracy

North and South

Civil War breaks out

Abolishment of slavery

Reconstruction

The post-war economy

Immigration

The railroads

Vocabulary:

Manifest Destiny

Belief that the United States would rule the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

Abraham Lincoln

16th president of the United States

U.S Civil War

War fought between the North and South from 1861-1865

Emancipation Proclamation

1863 proclamation to free the slaves in the Confederate states

Segregation

Separation by race

Critical Thinking

Why was the Cherokee Journey called the Trail of Tears?

How was the effect of the Mexican-American War greater than its cause?