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CHALLENGES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC: WESTWARD EXPANSION Mr. Lee Unit 2 Manifest Destiny What is “manifest destiny”? How did westward expansion affect American society, economics, politics, Native peoples, and our relations with other countries? Lewis and Clark “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 “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 Form Groups of 4 Complete each packet going Station to Station. Follow instructions Complete Worksheet Complete Map