Manifest DestinyAmerica’s Westward Expansion

American Population Shifts

http://www.learningliftoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/6-8th-Grade-Hisotry-Growing-and-Changing.swf

We will examine the interactive map to the right.

What can you observe happening?

Can you think of any reasons why this might be happening?

Salt Lake City, Utah

1860 1890

Image 1 Source: http://www.telegraph-history.org/transcontinental-telegraph/utah1.jpg

Image 2 Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Salt_lake_city_main_street_c1890_ug.jpg

Westbound Family 1886

•The Homestead Act of 1862

Image Source: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/westward-family-in-covered-wagon-c-1886-daniel-hagerman.html

2nd Industrial Revolution

•Bessemer Process 1851

•Andrew Carnegie

Image Source: http://www.gkn.com/aboutus/ourheritage/Pages/From-iron-into-steel.aspx

The Golden Spike 1869

•Transportation Revolution

Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promontory,_Utah#mediaviewer/File:1869-Golden_Spike.jpg

Travel on the Railroad

Image 2 Source: http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/2013/12/design-decoded-traveling-in-style-and-comfort-the-pullman-sleeping-car.html

Image 1 Source: http://gerald-massey.org.uk/faithfull/c_america_2.htm

Westward Travel Routes:Interactive Maps

THE PIONEER TRAILS THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

Full Railroad Maps: http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Maps/

Communication Revolution

TELEGRAPHY MORSE KEY

Image 2 Source: http://www.telcomhistory.org/vm/LHTrains.shtml

Image 1 Source: http://scienceservice.si.edu/pages/128014.htm

Homework: Primary Source Analysis

Analyze these two journals. You can begin reading them in class today.

You will be provided with a DBQ, as well as print versions of the journals.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/donner-diary-patrick-breen/

http://cprr.org/Museum/Gretchen_Schafer_1871.html

Exit Quiz

Complete the exit quiz!