Partners for DBQ – 4th Period
(1)Pick up a DBQ packet when you enter the room. DO
NOT WRITE ON IT.
(2) Please sit with your partner(s).
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Emma A. & Zaria
Rey & D’Najah
Shyniqua & Nigeria
Jared & Taylor
Gigi & Will
Jessenia & Rebecca
Logan & Jasmine
Drew & Ambria
 Yarah & Diego
 Blaikley & Jake
 Emma R. &
Grayson
 Allison & Miguel
 Jonathan & Brea
 Jayshon, Hope, &
Carson
Partners for DBQ – 5th Period
(1)Pick up a DBQ packet when you enter the room. DO
NOT WRITE ON IT.
(2) Please sit with your partner(s).
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D’Shon & Jayda
Stephen & Julie
Ben B. & Ricardo
Ben E. & Anna
Jordan & Hope
Grant & Fernando
Stefanie & Maritza
Neely & Harley
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McRae & Yair
Annie & Connor
Kayla & Guerin
Juan & Danielle
Andrew & Katie
Cheyanne & Abby
Kole & Isabel
Partners for DBQ – 6th Period
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Amir & Evelyn
Sierra & Colin
Kenoe & Sarah
Tacari & Savannah
Dionysius & Harry
Johnell & Carson
 Danielle & Daniel W.
 Camden & Tessa
 Jordan & Sallie
 Imani & Henry
 Anastasia & Daniel F.
 Bobby & Alex
 Blaire & Sam
Manifest Destiny
America Expands
Westward
 In your own words, what is “destiny?”
 The definition of “manifest” is:
– Clear or apparent
 In the mid-1800s, Americans believed they
had a clear destiny to expand across the
continent, from sea to shining sea
“Eastward I go only by force, but westward I
go free.”- Henry David Thoreau
Write this on a piece of paper that will become
your “Manifest Destiny DBQ”!
Other Reasons for Westward
Expansion:
Escape religious persecution
Find new markets for trade
Claim land for farming, ranching, and
mining
Locate Pacific harbors
Spread democracy!
Writing a DBQ
 A DBQ is a Document-Based Question
 You must read and analyze primary/secondary
source documents to help answer a historical
question
 After reading the documents, you develop an
argument (thesis) to answer the question
 The point is to show that you can read and analyze
documents and DEFEND YOUR ARGUMENT!
 These are designed to be about 5 paragraphs….
We will start with just planning, then 3, then 5!
 While you write use the PURPLE WRITING SHEET
FROM Ms. Hall!
Manifest Destiny DBQ Planning
 The Question
 The Thesis
– A thesis is the main ARGUMENT of the paper
– How can you make a historical argument?
 Introduction
– This includes background information about your topic
– (In this case, you need to address how/why Manifest
Destiny developed in America in the 1800s)
 3 Points
– This essay lays them out for you
– For each point, you need to include solid information
FROM THE DOCUMENTS and from your PREVIOUS
KNOWLEDGE to support your argument
– In your planning, write bullet points for now but include
PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS (see the board)
 The Conclusion (This will come later…)
How are these ideas of “Manifest Destiny” reflected in the following
pieces of artwork?
“American Progress” by John Gast
 “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” by Emanuel Leutze
Sectional Differences Emerge
Missouri Territory applies for statehood
Why is this a problem?
There are an equal number of slave/free states,
Missouri would tip the balance
Henry Clay – Missouri
Compromise (1820)
Missouri = slave
Maine = free
(split from
Massachusetts)
36-30 line:
north= free,
south = slave
Missouri Compromise
Texan Independence Primary Source Activity
 For Documents A-D answer the following
questions (COMPLETE SENTENCES!):
– Who wrote it? (Name, Mexican or American,
Date)
– According to this document, why did Texans
decide to declare independence in 1836?
– Do you trust the perspective of this
document? Why or why not?
 Conclusion: Based on all 4 documents,
do you think the Texans were justified in
declaring independence?
Expansion, Conflict, &
War in Texas
Sam Houston
“Remember the Alamo!”
Expansion & Conflict in Texas
 1. Why did Mexico want Americans to settle in
Texas?
 To help defend and develop the province
economically
 2. Why did Americans want to settle in Texas?
 Abundant, cheap, fertile land with a small
population
3. What brought American settlers into conflict with
the Mexican government?
 They did not convert to Roman Catholicism
(remained Protestants) & they ignored Mexico’s ban
on slavery
4. What happened at the
Alamo?
 Texas rebelled against
Mexican rule
 Santa Anna attacks the
Alamo to put down the
rebellion
 12 days of fighting, Mexico wins, then kills every
prisoner; “Remember the Alamo!”
* Video
 5. Why was the U.S. at first reluctant to annex
Texas?
 Northern Democrats did not want to add
another big, powerful slave state
 6. What promises did
Polk make to help
him win the election
(of 1844)?
 To make Northern
Democrats happy, he
promises to get all of
Oregon from Great
Britain or go to war;
*“54-40 or Fight!”*
Why did Polk need to satisfy the
interests of Northerners
specifically?
54 Line
 7. What did Polk do
that left many
Northern Democrats
feeling betrayed?
 To avoid war with
Great Britain, Polk
compromised on
Oregon in order to
fight Mexico (British
kept what became
British Columbia)
The Mexican-American War
1846-1848
America Achieves
Manifest Destiny
The Gadsden Purchase,
the Wilmot Proviso, and the
California Gold Rush
EQ: How did America achieve its “Manifest Destiny?”
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What formally ended the Mexican-American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
(Mexican Cession)
US adds 1.2 million square miles
Mexico was humiliated by the treaty, bitter toward
US for many years
 US added more territory with the
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
 Bought from Mexico, consisted of the southern
parts of Arizona & New Mexico
 Needed to run
transcontinental RR
How is this further
contributing to
Manifest Destiny?
 What issue continued to divide the nation?
– SLAVERY, and its expansion
 Whig Congressman David Wilmot proposes
the Wilmot Proviso:
 Proposed law would
ban slavery in all lands won
from Mexico
 Law DID NOT pass
 Lands won from
Mexico increased
North/South tensions
 Proposed
in Congress
for 15
more didn’t
years pass?
Why
do you think
the Wilmot
Proviso
 President
James K. Polk =
“Expansionist
President”
 Polk SUPPORTS
Manifest Destiny
CA Gold Rush Video
 The California Gold Rush
 What was it?
 Mass migration to California
after the discovery of gold in
1848
 Who was involved?
 “49ers” = Gold Rush miners
 Where did they come from?
 Across the US & other Pacific Rim nations (South
America, China)
 The California Gold Rush - Effects
 Conditions of the camps
 Crowded, poor sanitation, violence
 Population boom of…
 San Francisco
 Groups facing
discrimination
 Indians, Chinese, &
Mexicans;
taxed, terrorized
 The California Gold Rush - Effects
 ____________ applies for statehood…
 California
 Increases the debate
over…
 Slavery
 15 free states, 15 slave
 Would later lead
to the…
 Civil War
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Unit 2 Test Format - HONORS
35 Multiple Choice Questions
15 Matching Questions
1 Short Answer
5 IDs (choose from 10)
 Short Answer Topics:
 Inventions/innovations of the early 1800s & how they
affected society
 The public school movement and how it changed the
nation
 Unit 2 Test Quick Review
 Study your graphic organizers and notes!
 Key vocabulary to know:
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Monroe Doctrine
John C. Calhoun
Erie Canal
Nat Turner
Samuel F.B. Morse
nullification
Horace Mann
Treaty of Fort Laramie
nativists
Manifest Destiny
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Nationalism
forty-niners
Lucretia Mott
Henry Clay
John Quincy Adams
Joseph Smith
Trail of Tears
Whigs
Andrew Jackson
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Unit 2 Test Format
35 Multiple Choice Questions
15 Matching Questions
1 Short Answer, choose from 2
Short Answer Questions:
 Inventions/innovations of the early 1800s
& how they affected society
 The public school movement and how it
changed the nation
 Unit 2 Test Quick Review
 Study your graphic organizers and notes!
 Key vocabulary to know:
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Monroe Doctrine
John C. Calhoun
Erie Canal
Nat Turner
Samuel F.B. Morse
nullification
Horace Mann
Treaty of Fort Laramie
nativists
Manifest Destiny
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Nationalism
forty-niners
Lucretia Mott
Henry Clay
John Quincy Adams
Joseph Smith
Trail of Tears
Whigs
Andrew Jackson
Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo
A little test review…
Which President vetoed the 2nd National Bank?
Andrew Jackson
What is Sectionalism? Why is it significant?
Regionalism, breaking up into regions and supporting
regional interests; Created division in the United States
(industrial vs. agricultural; free vs. slave states)
What is the significance of the Missouri Compromise?
Brought in Missouri as a slave state & Maine as a free
state; made the number of slave and free states even
What were slaves promised as part of the Second Great
Awakening?
Eternal freedom after death
Why did cotton get the nickname “King Cotton”?
Most important crop in the U.S.; the South grew it and the
North used it in manufacturing (mills)
A little more test review…
Why did the Second Great Awakening encourage other reform
movements?
Encouraged other people to act on their morals to
reform society
What were “expansionists”?
People who believed in Manifest Destiny and wanted the
U.S. to expand westward
Which religious group were Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
associated with?
Mormons
What was the result of the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
Indians were forced to stay away from major trails; Many
did not obey the Treaty
What were some reasons people migrated westward?
Religious Persecution, Economic Opportunity/ Recovery, Spread Democracy, etc.
EXIT TICKET
1. What was the result of the Treaty of Fort
Laramie (1851)?
2. Where does the phrase “Remember the
Alamo” come from?
3. What territory does “54-40 or Fight” (Polk’s
campaign slogan) refer to?
4. Did James K. Polk support or oppose the
notion of Manifest Destiny?
5. Who is Sam Houston? What area did he
want the U.S. to annex?