Today’s Walking Classroom focuses on Manifest Destiny – an idea the early American settlers used as their reason to push westward and claim vast amounts of land during the mid 1800s. Settlers considered Manifest Destiny their God-given right to expand westward, and the idea was started by a journalist and was used to justify unfair actions against Native Americans and other nations. Because of Manifest Destiny, thousands of Native Americans were forced from the lands where they lived onto reservations.
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Common Core
L–Language | SL–Speaking and Listening | RI–Reading: Informational | RL–Reading: Literature | W–Writing | RH–6-8 Literacy in History/Social Studies | RST–6-8 Literacy in Science & Technical Subjects Elementary School:RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, SL.3.1, SL.3.4
RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, SL.4.1, SL.4.4
RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, SL.5.1, SL.5.4
Middle School:
RI.6.1, RI.6.2, RI.6.3, SL.6.1, SL.6.4
RI.7.1, RI.7.2, RI.7.3, SL.7.1, SL.7.4
RI.8.1, RI.8.2, RI.8.3, SL.8.1, SL.8.4
RH.6-8.4
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Slide Deck:
Manifest Destiny Slide Deck
Discusses the limits of human expansion and access.
Provides a crash course in Manifest Destiny.
Travel back to the 19th century in this group project.
Analyze primary sources in these activities from Stanford History Education Group.
Test knowledge of Manifest Destiny vocabulary with flashcards, matching, and vocabulary games from Quia.
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