Download Westward Expansion PP

Analyze the ESP
characteristics created in
the USA during Westward
Expansion
• We have always liked to move around and
move west…it’s been part of our DNA since the
1600s and continues into next year.
• How can we move west? Build
these!!!
• Timeframe?
– When does it start & end?
• What fuels expansion?
– Think ESP
• Here are the figures
(no major immigration
yet!)
– 1780 = 2.7 million
– 1800 = 5.2 million
– 1820 = 9.4 million
– 1830 = 12 million
• What do you notice?
• What does this mean
about/for the USA and
society?
• What is this painting
describing? What is
the theme/mood of it?
• Means “Obvious and Undeniable Fate”
– John L. O’Sullivan wrote the phrase in 1845
• It was the nation’s “manifest destiny to
overspread and to possess the whole of the
continent which Providence has given us for the
development of the great experiment of liberty
and federated self-government entrusted to us.”
– Thoughts on the quote? Paraphrase it
• Belief that works along Manifest Destiny
• Belief that the USA will encompass all of North Amer
• Started… after Florida was taken in 1819 from Spain