Florida Standards
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Textbook Chapter 13 Manifest Destiny
Workbook pages chapter 13
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Chapter 13 Notes and Assignments
Day 1: Manifest Destiny
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Day 2-3: The Oregon Trail
Day 4: Reading like a historian- MAnifest Destiny
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Complete the WAVES chart for the political cartoon above.
W- What words do you see? A- What actions do you see? V- What visual are in the cartoon? E- What emotions can you see? S- So what is the message of this cartoon? |
Day 5: Texas Revolution and Florida Statehood
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Day 6: The Alamo mini-q
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Day 7: The Mexican american war
Presidents who get a shout out in this chapter
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Day 8: The California Gold Rush
Chapter 13 Study Guide Manifest destiny
Directions: To be best prepared for your test review your notes, handouts, and goal sheet from the unit. Answer the questions below using your work from this unit.
- What is manifest destiny?
- What were reason people traveled on the Oregon Trail?
- Describe the mountain men in terms of their jobs and look?
- How did the mountain men open up the west for others to follow?
- What are wagon trains?
- Why did people travel this way?
- Be able to define the following terms
- Tejas
- Tejanos
- Prior to the US what two countries own what is now the state of Texas?
- What did the Spanish government do to encourage people to move to Texas?
- In what year did Mexico gain its independence?
- Who were the following people and what did they do?
- Moses Austin
- Stephen Austin
- Santa Anna
- Sam Houston
- Why was the battle of the Alamo significant to the Texas Revolution?
- What is meant by the phrase “remember the Alamo?”
- What was President James Polk’s view on manifest destiny?
- What did the US offer Mexico for Texas, California, and New Mexico? What was Mexico’s response?
- Why did the Mexican American War start?
- What was the result of the Mexican American War?
- Describe the Mexican Cession.
- Describe the California Gold Rush. Who were the 49ers?
- What was life like in a mining camp?
- What were your chances of striking it rich in California?