STAAR Review - Coppell Independent School District

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8th Grade

U.S. History

STAAR

Review

Manifest Destiny

FORT BURROWS 2018

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VOCABULARY

Annexation - To take a piece of land and add it to existing territory. Cede - To give up Compromise - An agreement where both people give up something to get something they both want. Distribution - How spread out something is Density - How close together people are Expansion - To get bigger Forty-Niner - Someone who went to look for gold in California in 1849. Gold Rush - The massive influx of people who came to California to search for gold in the 1850s Homestead - A piece of land that was sold by the government at a reduced price Manifest Destiny - The widely-held belief in the 1800s that the United States was blessed by God should expand from ocean to ocean Missionary - Someone who tries to convince people to convert to a different religion Transcontinental - Across the whole nation Mormon - A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a religion founded in America in the 1800s Pioneer - An explorer Provision - A section of a treaty or document. Reservation - A piece of land set aside for Native Americans Territory - Land that belongs to a country Treaty - An agreement between two nations or groups

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Transcendentalism

Description

Philosophy that emphasized: ? living a simple life ? celebrating the truth found in nature and in your own emotions and imagination ? being an individual, your own person

People

Henry David Thoreau was an important writer with a "Return to nature" message

Original Thoreau Quote

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your

life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different

drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself

than this incessant business.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.

What transcendentalist belief does it illustrate?

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Hudson River School

IT'S NOT AN ACTUAL SCHOOL!! Group of artists who had a special "American" style Painted landscapes that showed America's natural beauty America's first own art Thought art could help people be more spiritual and moral

People

John James Audubon - drew birds and other animals

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1. What do you think the title of this painting might be? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ 2. What types of people do you see? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ 3. The woman represents the United States--what is she doing? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ 4. What is the message of the painting? ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

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Manifest Destiny

Reasons for Westward Expansion

Political

Economic

reduced the power of England Increased United States

strength in the world reduced threats from other

countries

Increased need for farm land discovery of gold in California increased cotton production

Social

strong nationalism belief that the US was better belief in racial superiority Belief that God supported

expansion

Louisiana Purchase

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France for $15 million. However, the land actually belonged to Native Americans.

New Orleans was a BIG port that connects the Mississippi River to the ocean

Shipping goods from ports was the only way to trade with far away countries

The fastest way to get things to a port was by river (ship goods by river to a port, then from the port can go across ocean to another country)

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Southerners were upset that slaves would run away to Spanish-owned Florida and Seminole Indians would raid "American" lands

President Monroe tells Spain to govern Florida better or give it up

Andrew Jackson illegally invades Florida and captures its military bases

Spain gives up Florida to the US in 1819

Florida

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