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Compelling Question

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Was Westward Expansion a Success?

GAST: AMERICAN PROGRESS. - 'American Progress.' An allegorical respresentation of Manifest Destiny. Chromolithograph after the painting by John Gast, c1873.. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
quest.eb.com/search/140_1708906/1/140_1708906/cite. Accessed 28 Oct 2021.

Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion - Research in Context

What factors influenced westward expansion?

Source A - 1836 Protest Song

Source B - 19th century population

Source C - Excerpts from "The Great Nation of Futurity"

Source D - Map of United States territorial acquisitions

Source E - Excerpts from James K. Polk's Fourth Annual Message

Source F - The California Gold Rush image bank

Source G - Excerpt from the Homestead Act of 1862

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Westward expansion picture

What new technologies influenced westward expansion?

Source B - Chart comparing travel by dirt road and canal

Source D - Image bank- Technologies of the mid-19th century

Rates of Travel from New York 1800 - Interactive
Charles O. Paullin, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, ed. John K. Wright. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1932. Digital edition edited by Robert K. Nelson et al., 2013. http://dsl.richmond.edu/historicalatlas/.