Essential Questions Specialty Area 3
All students completing SA 3 are required to read the pages in the text related to their topic; and have a clear understanding of the broader issues related to Westward Expansion.
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Part I: Western Visions, Trails & Roots
1. Analyze the role of Manifest Destiny in the Settlement of the West.
2. Analyze the role of the Mountain Men in the expansion of the West?
3. What role did the Oregon trail play in Westward expansion?
4.Analyze the events associated with the Donner party?
Your Thesis: SO WHAT? While completing your research what conclusions did you draw? Why does this topic matter, how do the events you studied change history? Write a one paragraph thesis that addresses what is important about this subject & what should people remember. |
Part II: Motivations & Movements
5. What role did the Mormons play in Westward expansion?
6. What role did the gold rush play in the expansion of the West?
7. What motivated people to go West? Explain the westward movement in terms of:
8. Analyze conflict in the West between ranchers, miners, and farmers.
Your Thesis: SO WHAT? While completing your research what conclusions did you draw? Why does this topic matter, how do the events you studied change history? Write a one paragraph thesis that addresses what is important about this subject & what should people remember. |
Web links to Research, Project Helps and Online Presentation Assitance
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The "Project Assistance" button above will give you access to numerous websites that can assist you in creating web based projects. Regardless of your chosen project take a few minutes to review the available web sites, you might find something you were not previously aware of that will be of interest to you!
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The "Willowcreek Library Texts and Tools" button above will link you to the Alexandria Library. Within the Alexandria library any books with the call number starting with "REF" or a number are informational texts, conversely any call number starting with "FIC", "PB", or "SC" are fictional texts. To access books tagged for the Revolutionary war, go to the search page, type in "ness west", and hit search. on the top right hand corner click on the "find more" box. To assist in your search, go to the top drop down menu "unsorted" and sort by "Call Number", this will categorize the fiction and informational texts,posting the informational texts (excluding reference texts) on the top; in addition it will indicate the order of the texts on the stacks. Identify the call number to find the text on the stacks.
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Page Numbers in the Text Specialty Area 3
Call to Freedom
Pages: 554, 558-563 Pages: 420-439 American History Pages:442-443 Pages: 444-449 Pages: 462-466 |
Discovering our Past
Chapter 11: Pages 302-307 Chapter 13: Pages 345-352; Pages 365-369 |
Instructor Created MaterialsConsequences of Manifest DestinyAssignment: Available via the "Guilt or Innocence' link below:
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Student Created MaterialsBelow is an outstanding presentation written and performed by Richard O on Westward Expansion. Following his lecture is an interesting approach to the presentation through a scrapbook on the American West.
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Suggested Websites for Specialty Area 3
Suggested Novels for Specialty Area 3
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Title: Across the wide and lonesome prairie: the Oregon Trail diary of Hattie Campbell
Author: Kristina Gregory Synopsis: In her diary, thirteen-year old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. Title: All the Stars in the Sky; the Sante Fe trial diary of Florrie Mack Ryder
Author: Megan Mcdonald Synopsis: A girl's diary records the year 1848 during which she, her brother, mother, and stepfather traveled the Sante Fe trail from independence, Missouri, to Sante Fe. Title: The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds; the Donner Party Expedition
Author: Rodman Philbrick Synopsis: Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47. Title: The Journal of Jedidiah Barstow; an emigrant on the Oregon Trail
Author: Ellen Levine Synopsis: In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedidiah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears ad rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes. Title: Seeds of Hope: the Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory
Author: Kristina Gregory Synopsis: A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note. Title: Westward to Home
Author: Patricia Hermes Synopsis: In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullogh writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri t Oregon in a covered wagon. Includes a historical note about Westward migration. Title: The collected short stories of Louis L'Amour
Author: Louis L'Amour A collection of frontier stories by the acclaimed author. Title: Beyond the great snow mountains
Author: Louis L'Amour Synopsis: By the water of San Tadeo -- Meeting at Falmouth -- Roundup in Texas-- Sideshow champion-- Crash landing under the hanging wall-- Coast Patrol-- The Gravel Pit-- The money punch-- Beyond the great snow mountains-- A note of dedication-- Afterword. A collection of ten short stories by Louis L'Amour. Title: Charlotte's Rose
Author: A. E. Cannon Synopsis: As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fears the day the baby's father will reclaim her. Title: The Cherokee Trail
Author: Louis L'Amour Synopsis: Mary Breydon came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail after her Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was shot down on the way to Colorado. She had to make a new life for herself and her daughter. Title: Boston Jane: An adventure
Author: Jennifer L. Holm Synopsis: Sequel: Boston Jane: Wilderness Days. Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinock Indians of Washington Territory. Title: By the Great Horn Spoon!
Author Sid Fleischman ; illustrated by Eric von Schmidt Jack and his aunt's butler, Praiseworthy, stow away on a ship bound for California during the Gold Rush of "49." Title: The ox-bow incident (19-21) CLASSIC, ADVANCED READER
Author: Clark, Walter Van Tilburg Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. Title: The outlaws of mesquite frontier stories (19-20)
Author: Louis L'Amour. The outlaws of Mesquite -- Love and the Cactus Kid -- The ghost maker -- The drift -- etc. Title: Roughing it CLASSIC, ADVANCED READER (19-20)
Author: Mark Twain ; with a foreword by Leonard Kriegel ; revised and updated bibliography. Roughing It is a series of sketches and essays about Twain’s time spent in the American west and the colorful characters he met along the way Title: Valley of the sun: frontier stories (19-21)
Author: Louis L'Amour. Includes nine stories of the American frontier, where men and women of indomitable courage, honor, and individualism fight to survive and stake their claim to the future. Title: West against the wind (19-20)
Author: Liza Ketchum Murrow. Fourteen-year-old Abby seeks both her father and the secret of a handsome but mysterious boy during an arduous journey by wagon train from the middle of the country to the Pacific coast in |
Title: The devil's paintbox (19-21)
Author: Victoria McKernan Orphans Aidan and his sister Maddy leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle. Title: Doe Sia: Bannock girl and the handcart pioneers (19-21)
Author: Kenneth Thomasma ; Agnes Vincen Talbot, illustrator. After meeting Emma, who is part of a band of Mormons making their way to Salt Lake City in 1856, Doe Sia, a young Bannock girl, proves her friendship when the two are caught in a brutal snow storm. Title: The game of silence (19-21)
Author: Louise Erdrich Sequel to: The birchbark house.Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849. Title: High trail to danger (19-20)
Author: Joan Lowery Nixon. In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life. Title: I have heard of a land (19-20)
Author: Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper Describes the experiences of an African-American pioneer woman who stakes a claim for free land in the Oklahoma Territory Title: Jenny of the Tetons (19-21)
Author: Kristiana Gregory. Orphaned by an Indian raid while traveling West with a wagon train, fifteen-year-old Carrie Hill is befriended by the English trapper Beaver Dick and taken to live with his Indian wife Jenny and their six children. Title: The journal of Brian Doyle: a greenhorn on an Alaskan whaling ship (19-20)
Author: Jim Murphy. A fictional diary in which young Brian Doyle records how he ran away from his home in San Francisco in 1784, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic. Title: The journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: the Donner Party expedition (19-20)
Author: Rodman Philbrick. Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47. Title: The legend of Jimmy Spoon (19-21)
Author: Kristiana Gregory. In the middle of the nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Jimmy leaves his Mormon family in Utah and ends up living with the Shoshoni Indians as the younger brother of Chief Washakie. Title: Letters from the corrugated castle: a novel of gold rush California, 1850-1852 (19-20) Author: Joan W. Blos A series of letters and newspaper articles reveals life in California in the 1850s. Title: Little town on the prairie (19-20)
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder ; illustrated by Garth Williams. Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher. Title: My face to the wind: the diary of Sarah Jane Price, a prairie teacher (19-20)
Author: Jim Murphy. Title: Nothing here but stones (19-20)
Author: Nancy Oswald In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved. Title: The Oregon Trail (19-20) GRAPHIC NOVEL
Author: Joeming Dunn ; illustrated by Tim Smith, III. Travel the Oregon Trail with emigrants in graphic novel format. Title: Sallie Fox: the story of a pioneer girl (19-21)
Author: Dorothy Kupcha Leland ; cover design and illustrations by Diane Wilde A fictionalized account of 12-year-old Sallie Fox's arduous trek by wagon train with her family from Iowa to California in the mid 1800s. Along the way, they are beset by Indian attacks, drought, illness, and personality clashes. What begins as an exciting adventure becomes an ordeal, days and days without water and animals and people dying at an alarming rate. Sally shares her fear of Indians and her excitement about buffalo hunting. Title: West along the wagon road 1852 (19-20)
Author: Laurie Lawlor. Everyone on the wagon train knew Harriet "Duck" Scott was looking for adventure, as the Scott family left Illinois for the faraway Oregon Territory. Title: West to a land of plenty: the diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi (19-21)
Author: Jim Murphy. While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way. Title: May B (19-20)
Author: Caroline Star Rose May is helping out on a neighbor's Kansas prairie homestead—just until Christmas, says Pa. She wants to contribute, but it's hard to be separated from her family by 15 long, unfamiliar miles. Then the unthinkable happens: May is abandoned. Trapped in a tiny snow-covered sod house, isolated from family and neighbors, May must prepare for the oncoming winter. While fighting to survive, May's memories of her struggles with reading at school come back to haunt her. But she's determined to find her way home again. Caroline Starr Rose's fast-paced novel, written in beautiful and riveting verse, gives readers a strong new heroine to love. |
See Below For Available Films and Podcasts Related to Specialty Area
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is the title of this video that shows at Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site. In the 19th century Americans wanted more land, and settlement moved west. As white settlers satisfied a thirst for land, countless American Indians faced the end of a traditional way of life. Shawnee Mission was one of many established as a manual training school attended by boys and girls from Shawnee, Delaware, and other Indian nations from 1839 to 1862. This 12-acre National Historic Landmark in Fairway, Kansas, tells their story along with themes of trails, Bleeding Kansas, and the Civil War. Produced by the Kansas Historical Society 2001
The Story of Us: Westward Expansion
Published by the History Channel, 2012
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States. To Jefferson, westward expansion was the key to the nation's health: He believed that a republic depended on an independent, virtuous citizenry for its survival, and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership, especially the ownership of small farms. ("Those who labor in the earth," he wrote, "are the chosen people of God.") In order to provide enough land to sustain this ideal population of virtuous yeomen, the United States would have to continue to expand.
The westward expansion of the United States is one of the defining themes of 19th-century American history, but it is not just the story of Jefferson's expanding "empire of liberty." On the contrary, as one historian writes, in the six decades after the Louisiana Purchase, westward expansion "very nearly
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States. To Jefferson, westward expansion was the key to the nation's health: He believed that a republic depended on an independent, virtuous citizenry for its survival, and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership, especially the ownership of small farms. ("Those who labor in the earth," he wrote, "are the chosen people of God.") In order to provide enough land to sustain this ideal population of virtuous yeomen, the United States would have to continue to expand.
The westward expansion of the United States is one of the defining themes of 19th-century American history, but it is not just the story of Jefferson's expanding "empire of liberty." On the contrary, as one historian writes, in the six decades after the Louisiana Purchase, westward expansion "very nearly
Oregon Trail
This documentary was downloaded from youtube on 4/7/14. There was no supporting data to identify the producer and director of the documentary. It is an outstanding review of the Oregon Trail, utilizing numerous primary documents and expert interviews.
Part I: Oregon Trail
Part II: Oregon Trail
President James K. Polk: The West
A five minute excerpt from the 2009 Ken Burn, PBS documentary, entitled "The West" on President James K. Polk
A Modern Day Exodus - The Mormon Trail to Utah
Oct 23, 2009 This video, produced by Mike Batie, portrays the story of the Mormon Exodus in the mid-1800s.
The Mountain Men Documentary (1999)
Produced by the History Channel
Gold Rush, History Channel, 2009
On January 24, 1848, James Marshall found gold near the fork of the American and Sacramento Rivers, and unleashed a massive migration from around the world to what had been a forgotten backwater. With head-spinning speed, these gold-seekers created one of the most extraordinary societies in history -- hard-driving, overwhelmingly male, often brutal.The Gold Rush was a remarkably international event in short order, gold-seekers from Oregon and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Mexico, Chile, England, France, Australia, Ireland, and China were soon knee-deep in water in the diggings. Each found themselves playing the Great California Lottery, in which luck not hard work or honesty, seemed the key to success.
Mapping the West
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