PPT-GCSE AMERICAN WEST

MASTERCLASS Time 1 hour 15 mins Q1 4 marks You must do this one Q2 9 marks You must do this one Q3 and Q4 12 marks You must do EITHER Q3 OR Q4 You then pick EITHER Q5 and do BOTH Parts OR do Q6 and do BOTH parts. Great American Desert. Tepee. Buffalo. Counting Coup. Warfare. Great Spirit. Medicine Man. Hide. Tanning. Nomads. Great Plains. Great circle. Tribe. Bands. Scalping. Pioneers. Mountain Men. Trailblazers. © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.. 1. Expanding Westward. Population growth was stimulated by expansionism motivated by patriotism of America after the War of 1812 and relative calm of internal events. While one in seven Americans lived in the west in 1810, one in four Americans lived west of Appalachian Mountains by 1820. . Bell Ringer. Settlinging. . the West. Conquering America's. Frontier. Frederick Jackson Turner’s . Frontier Thesis. “American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character....In the crucible of the frontier the immigrants were Americanized, liberated, and fused into a mixed race, English in neither nationality nor characteristics...." . The West: Mexican-American War. Event 1: U.S. ‘annexes’ Texas in March, 1845. Event 2: Border Dispute leads to war in June, 1845. Event. 3: Bear Flag Revolt in . Somoma. , CA. 1. 2. 3. Event 4: General Taylor Drives Santa. Cormac McCarthy. Context. Genre: American Western. Influences: Louis . L’amour. , Zane Gray, William Faulkner, and Earnest Hemingway.. The American west has come to represent two things:1). A sacred, promised land and 2). A desert wilderness, where danger lurks, primarily in the form of hostile Native Americans.. Part 1 The American Indians. Indians migrated from Asia over 10,000 years ago. The landscape of the American Continent. Indian land. Europeans discover America 1492. Indians are pushed west onto the Plains as the Europeans settle in the east. Reshaping America in the Early 1800s Lesson 1 Moving West. Learning Objectives. Summarize the settlement and development of the Spanish borderlands.. Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny and how it influenced westward expansion.. Context. Genre: American Western. Influences: Louis . L’amour. , Zane Gray, William Faulkner, and Earnest Hemingway.. The American west has come to represent two things:1). A sacred, promised land and 2). A desert wilderness, where danger lurks, primarily in the form of hostile Native Americans.. Copyright 2007, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Longman. Expansion and Migration. American perspective shifted from Europe to West after 1815. Rush-Bagot Agreement, 1817 . U.S. recognized Canada as British; British agreed not to invade U.S.. Social – Why did the West attracted so many people?. The population was rapidly growing in the East, Americans were running out of room, they had to move West.. Economic hardships (panics and depressions) in the East pushed Americans to the West.. Lessons 1-6. a boat that moves by the power of a steam engine. a person who comes to a country from another country. a route across land. the physical characteristics of an area of land. a human-made waterway. Lessons 1-6. a boat that moves by the power of a steam engine. a person who comes to a country from another country. a route across land. the physical characteristics of an area of land. a human-made waterway. Westward expansion was an inevitable and positive process.. Westward expansion was immoral and unfair because of the way it affected Native Americans.. Westward expansion was a process of its time and cannot be judged by modern standards.. %4-'):%-)&*")0#,-&)1%&#.")2/",#$%()&')7")%++'#(&"!)A*%#,/%()'0)&*")C'%,!)0',)&*")23&,?)1%&#'(%4)A"(&",)D:*#$*)#($43!"-)the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the American West, and