The new century saw the United States transformed by exponential
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Indicator 4-5.1: Summarize the major expeditions that played a role in westward expansions
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Learning Tasks:
Ø Students will view the Discovery Education video clips “How Leaders and Events Shape Communities- segment ‘Explorers’” (Stopping at 1 min. 12 sec.) and “Nineteenth Century Explorers: Exploring the West” (Stopping at 58 seconds). They will analyze the videos using the video analysis sheet. (DOK 2-3) Ø Students will view the Discovery Education video clip “Westward Expansion: The Pioneer Challenge” (Beginning to 4 min. 41 sec.). They will analyze the video using the video analysis sheet. (DOK 2-3) Ø Students will view two maps (Map 1-2 activity) displaying major expeditions’ information. They will read closely the text presented with both maps using cooperative learning to label parts of Map 2. (DOK 1-2) Ø Students will view the BrainPopJr. video clip “Lewis and Clark Expedition.” They will analyze the video using the video analysis sheet. (DOK 2-3) OR Students will complete the Headline Activity to create a headline that captures the most important idea to take away from the video clip. (DOK 3) Ø Students will analyze the photograph “Lewis and Clark Talk with Native Americans” from Kids InfoBits Presents: Famous Explorers using the photo analysis sheet. (DOK 2-3) Ø Students will read pages 16-17 of the Lerner eBook US History through Infographics. Students will then complete the Pick 3 and Compare to share their ideas about movement west. (DOK 2-3) Ø Using the resources learned from this indicator, students will choose the explorer/expedition they feel was the most influential for opening up westward expansion. The class will host a thrash-out/debate based on their choice. After two rounds, students will complete a personal reflection in their notebook, based on their final decision. (Personal reflection: Which explorer/expedition did you finally decide upon and why?) (DOK 3-4) Ø ** Achieve3000 articles- “A Piece of History” and “Westward Expansion: Discovering our World” could be assigned, completed in small group or as a workstation task. |
It is essential for students to know:
The explorations of Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, and Zebulon Pike did not bring slavery to the new western lands. However, they opened these lands to further settlement which would eventually raise the issue of expanding slavery into the western territories. Their published reports made the land they explored known to American people who would often follow the trails they blazed and later settle the area. Daniel Boone crossed the Appalachian Mountains, through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky creating the Wilderness Trail, which later became the first National Road. Such pioneer trails expanded on the original Native American trails. Boone established the first United States settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains and eventually purchased much of the land in Kentucky that was taken from the Cherokee. With the help of Native American guides such as Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark documented the land that was soon included in the Louisiana Purchase and established the American claims to the Pacific Northwest (then known as Oregon Country.) The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and map the area across the continent to the Pacific Ocean because of secret negotiations for the purchase from France and because Americans and others were still seeking a continuous (but now known to be non-existent) water route connecting the northeastern part of North America to the northwestern part [called the Northwest Passage] through the uncharted midsection of the continent. The Louisiana Territory stretched from New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi River to present-day Idaho and as far north as Canada. During their travels, Lewis and Clark also passed through the Oregon Territory establishing the basis for an American claim to this land. In addition to mapping the areas they visited (the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase), the Lewis and Clark expedition brought back information about the Native Americans who lived in these regions as they tried to establish peaceful relations. Their expedition also provided scientific information and specimens of the plants and animals they found. Zebulon Pike located and explored the upper regions of the Mississippi River. Pike made treaties with the Native Americans. He mapped and claimed lands for the United States during the westward expansion into uncharted territories that stretched to the Pacific Ocean and up to the Oregon Country. Because of his further explorations of the southwest into Spanish territory, Pike’s Peak, in present-day Colorado, is named in his honor. |