1) Define the term Manifest Destiny and infer the concepts role in causing the Civil War.2) Analyze a primary resource and explain its connection to Manifest Destiny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQBTPY7gk

Why was the Civil War fought? What was it fought over?

1825-1850: Expanding Markets and Moving West

1850-1861: The Union in Peril◦ What does Peril mean?

1861-1865: The Civil War 1865-1877: Reconstruction and effects

Belief that Americans movement westward and southward to the Pacific Ocean was destined and ordained by God.

1) Claim land for farming & speculating.2) New markets for manufactured goods.3) Provide more living space.4) Locate harbors to expand trade with China.5) Seek employment and avoid creditors after

Panic of 1837.6) Spread the virtues of democracy &

Christianity.

What could be some possible problems with westward expansion?

Native American tribes in the way of expansion.

Sauk & Fox Indian tribes of Western Illinois & Eastern Iowa were being pressured to move west of the Mississippi.

Chief Black Hawk of the Sauk tribe is told of a vision…

• “… the Big Black Bird Hawk was the man to lead the [Native American] nations and win back the old homes of people; that when the fight began… the warriors would be without number; that back would come the buffalo… that had disappeared; and that in a little while the white man would be driven to the eastern ocean and across the farther shore from whence he came.”– Tribal Edler, quoted in Native American Testimony

Four month rebellion in Illinois & Wisconsin. Ended in June 1832 when the Illinois militia

killed over 200 Sauk and Fox people. The tribes were forcibly removed to areas

west of the Mississippi.

American pioneers- headed to Cali from Independence, Missouri.

Tried to take a shortcut (never taken)◦ What reasons would this be more difficult?

Camps and families spaced out

Let’s look at the readings on the Donner Party.