What is Manifest Destiny? p 263 It's the idea that the U.S. was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Watch Conquest of the Am Northwest 7 min video:

Secretary of State William Seward wanted to buy Alaska from Russia for $7.5 mil

     1.  Critics called Alaska
           Sewards Folly or Seward's Ice Box
    Alaska's value
     2.  Added 600,000 sq mil to U.S.
     3.  Rich in natural resources, coal, oil, gas
     4.  Removed another European power
          from the Western Hemisphere
     5.  Gold was discovered in the Klondike
     6.  49th state in 1959

Watch Alaska Gold Rush 7 min video:

    Samoan, Pago Pago used as a coaling
                station for ships  in the Pacific

    Capt James Cook,  English explorer,
    discovered the Hawaiian Islands in 1778

Queen Liliuokalani wanted to make
Hawaii for Hawaiians
    Later Hawaii was annexed to the U.S.
    in 1900 and became the 50th state in 1959

Photo Credits:

Alaska: usinfo.state.gov/.../ travel/natlgeog/salask1.gif

Lesson Objectives

Students will learn

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. list

2. explain the difference between

3. describe the

4. chart on a map the

5. define the terms

6. Explain the significance of

Knowledge: Recall of data.

Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.

Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace.

Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. 

Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.