Warm Up:
Government Trivia!
Use your notebook to answer the questions.
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What year was the Constitutional Convention?
Where did the Convention take place?
What sort of people attended the Convention?
Who was the president of the Convention?
What did large and small states disagree
about at the Convention?
6. How many branches of government did the
Constitution set up? What are they?
7. Which branch of government makes laws?
8. Which branch includes the Supreme Court?
Today’s Question:
How did the United States
gain territory in the west?
Agenda:
1. Video clip: The West
2. Notes/color map: U.S. gains territory
3. Documentary: America the Story of Us:
Westward
Video Clip:
1. What different groups of people have lived
in the west?
2. Why did American want to expand out
west?
3. What problems might they face?
United States in 1783 (following
the Revolutionary War)
1803: Louisiana Purchase
__________ ____________purchased the Louisiana
Territory from France.
He sent Lewis and Clark on an expedition to
explore and map out the land from the
______________ River to the ______________ Ocean.
1803: Louisiana Purchase
1819: Florida
______________ gave Florida to the United States
through a treaty.
1819: Florida
1845: Texas
Texas broke away from Mexico in 1836 and
became an _____________country.
In 1845 Texas became a state, which included
all of present day Texas plus parts of New
_____________ and several other states.
1845: Texas
1846: Oregon
Both ___________ and the United States occupied
Oregon until 1846.
In 1846, the territory was ___________ between
the United States and Great Britain.
1846: Oregon
1848: California
The United States gained _____________ and the
southwest after winning the Mexican
American War.
1848: California