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CHALLENGES OF THE NEW
REPUBLIC: WESTWARD EXPANSION
Mr. Lee
Unit 2
Manifest Destiny
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What is “manifest
destiny”?
How did westward
expansion affect
American society,
economics, politics,
Native peoples, and
our relations with other
countries?
Lewis and Clark
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“The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri
river, and such principal stream of it as by its course
and communication with the waters of the Pacific
Ocean whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or
any other river may offer the most direct and
practicable water communication across this
continent for the purposes of commerce.”
-Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis (1803)
Into the unknown
“Walking is for suckers.” –H. Simpson
Gimme Gimme Gimme
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“The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to
overspread and possess the whole of the continent which Providence
has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty
and…self-government entrusted to us.”
Activity
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Form Groups of 4
Complete each packet going Station to Station.
Follow instructions
 Complete
Worksheet
 Complete Map