6.4 The US is expanding

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6.4 The US is expanding

• Rich Englishmen who could buy a lot of land in America
  
• Poor English looking for a better life in America (contract workers.

What were motives for Europeans to immigrate to the US ?

Protesters took part in a Black Lives Matter rally in Seattle on Apr. 15, 2017

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Objectives

At the end of the lesson, you can... 

• Explain why the United States is called the "realm of freedom
  
• Explain why the pioneers moved further into the United States
  
• Explaining the frontier
  
• Explaining what a reserve is and how the Indians ended up there
  
• Explaining and explaining what Manifest Destiny is.
  

At the end of the lesson, you can... 

• Explain why the United States is called the "realm of freedom
  
• Explain why the pioneers moved further into the United States
  
• Explaining the frontier
  
• Explaining what a reserve is and how the Indians ended up there
  
• Explaining and explaining what Manifest Destiny is.
  

Religion

Wealth

Religion

• Pilgrim Fathers: conservative ('pure') protestant. Couldn't practise their faith in England.
• Quakers: tolerant protestants. Were persecuted in England. They were for feedom of religion.

Wealth

• Rich Englishmen who could buy a lot of land in America
  
• Poor English looking for a better life in America (contract workers.

Lack of space for the immigrants

Doubling the number of white inhabitants from around 4 million to nearly 10 million

Reasons for migration

• The pioneers (those who first moved to the west) sought space with them.
  
• California became popular after finding gold (gold rush).

• The pioneers (those who first moved to the west) sought space with them.
  
• California became popular after finding gold (gold rush).

But doesn't anyone live here? 

Indians

• Americans are getting more and more in touch with Indians
  
• The Indians are forced to live in reservations
• Trial of tears

• Indians are losing more and more territory and food to America 
  
• By further warfare the cultures of the Indians disappear.
  
• Hunting bison turns out to be profitable, Indians get more and more hungry... 

• Indians are losing more and more territory and food to America 
  
• By further warfare the cultures of the Indians disappear.
  
• Hunting bison turns out to be profitable, Indians get more and more hungry... 

Trail of tears 

Over the Mississippi

• Indians are losing more and more territory and food to America. In 1830, a law was passed that could force tribes to leave their lands.
  
• Trail of Tears: forced journey to a reserve. 4,000 of the 16,000 Cherokees are killed.
  
• The Indians on the Great Plains seemed safe from the advancing frontier.

The US is expanding

• Trail of Tears
  
•        - Still from Indians to reservation
  
•        - Thousands of deaths
  
• 
  
• Special vocation of Americans
  
•        - Manifesto Destiny: A God-given command to the American civilization.
  
• from the Atlantic ocean to the Great Ocenan
  
• 
  
• Takes care of it:
  
• Annexation areas
  
•        - Texas
  
•        - Northwest America
  
• Gold Rush
  
•        - Inflow of gold prospectors 

For what reasons do English people migrate to America?

1. Religion
2. Gold
3. Religion and Wealth
4. Enlightened ideals

Which description of 'reservations' is good?

1. Territory of the Indians
2. Territory of the settlers
3. Territory of the colonists.
4. Areas assigned to Native Americans

The United States Declaration of Independence was the first document to use Enlightened Ideas. Give an example of this.

Why does the Manifest Destiny fit in with the ideals of the Enlightenment?

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson

Ask 1 question about something that you have not yet understood this lesson

The US is expanding

• Trail of Tears
  
•        - Still from Indians to reservation
  
•        - Thousands of deaths
  
• 
  
• Special vocation of Americans
  
•        - Manifesto Destiny: A God-given command to the American civilization.
  
• from the Atlantic ocean to the Great Ocenan
  
• 
  
• Takes care of it:
  
• Annexation areas
  
•        - Texas
  
•        - Northwest America
  
• Gold Rush
  
•        - Inflow of gold prospectors 

Lesdoelen

Aan het eind van de les kan jij...

• Uitleggen waarom de Verenigde Staten het 'rijk van de vrijheid' worden genoemd
• Verklaren waarom de pioniers verder de Verenigde Staten introkken
• Uitleggen wat de frontier is
• Uitleggen wat een reservaat is en hoe de indianen daar terecht kwamen
  
• Uitleggen en verklaren wat Manifest Destiny is.
  

Huiswerk

Hoofdstuk 6, paragraaf 4:

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