Unit Six Standards
SS.8.A.4.1: Examine the causes, course, and consequences of United States westward expansion and its growing diplomatic assertiveness.
SS.8.A.4.2: Describe the debate surrounding the spread of slavery into western territories and Florida
Unit Essential Questions
Students will understand...
Words to Know
joint occupation, mountain man, emigrant, prairie schooner, Manifest Destiny, Tejano, annex, rancho, ranchero, forty-niner, boomtown, vigilante, Oregon County, Adams-Onis Treaty, Oregon Trail, James K. Polk, Tallahassee, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, The Alamo, Sam Houston, New Mexico Territory, Santa Fe, William Becknell, Santa Fe Trail, California, John C. Fremont, Zachary Taylor, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, California Gold Rush, Utah Territory, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young
SS.8.A.4.1: Examine the causes, course, and consequences of United States westward expansion and its growing diplomatic assertiveness.
SS.8.A.4.2: Describe the debate surrounding the spread of slavery into western territories and Florida
Unit Essential Questions
- How does geography influence the way people live?
- Why does conflict develop?
- How do new ideas change the way people live?
Students will understand...
- why Americans wanted to control the Oregon Country.
- the meaning of "Manifest Destiny".
- how Florida and Texas became states.
- how the Santa Fe Trail benefitted the New Mexico Territory.
- how the culture of California developed.
- why war broke out between the United States and Mexico.
- how the discovery of gold helped California.
- why the Mormons settled in Utah.
Words to Know
joint occupation, mountain man, emigrant, prairie schooner, Manifest Destiny, Tejano, annex, rancho, ranchero, forty-niner, boomtown, vigilante, Oregon County, Adams-Onis Treaty, Oregon Trail, James K. Polk, Tallahassee, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, The Alamo, Sam Houston, New Mexico Territory, Santa Fe, William Becknell, Santa Fe Trail, California, John C. Fremont, Zachary Taylor, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, California Gold Rush, Utah Territory, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young