Destiny+or+Might+Project

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=**Guiding Question**=

**In achieving its Manifest Destiny, did the United States rightfully acquire the territories of Florida, Texas, and California?** =Background Information=

John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States (1825-1829), wrote in 1811:

//**"The whole continent appears to be destined...to be peopled by one nation. The acquisition of a definite line of boundary to the [Pacific] forms a great epoch [period] in our history."**// Abraham Lincoln, Illinois Senator (1841):

**"It is a fact, that the United States Army, in marching to the Rio Grande, marched into a peaceful Mexican settlement, and frightened the inhabitants away from their homes and their growing crops,"**

In 1845, John O'Sullivan, a New Yorker and editor of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, wrote: //**"The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence [God’s kingdom] has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federative self-government entrusted to us.”**// =Debate Topics=
 * 1) In achieving its Manifest Destiny, did the United States rightfully acquire the territories of Florida, Texas, and California?


 * In your research notebook, outline how America gained each of the following territories: Florida, Texas, & California.
 * Be able to explain an American and non-American perspective with regards to how the U.S. achieved each territory (Florida, Texas, & California).
 * How would an American justify/explain/rationalize/defend the acquisition of each territory to a non-American?
 * Would a person from another culture or nation share the same viewpoint? How might they see the events of America’s “Manifest Destiny” differently?

=Assessment= Create a 5 - 6 minute audio podcast in which you present your research and argument with regards to the following question:
 * 1) Explain how the U.S. acquired the territories of Florida, Texas, & California?
 * 2) Present an American & non-American perspective of how these territories were acquired.
 * 3) Present your position and argument to the question below.
 * 4) Student Destiny or Might Poll
 * 5) Destiny or Might Project Review

**In achieving its Manifest Destiny, did the United States rightfully acquire the territories of Florida, Texas, and California?** =Resources=
 * [[file:Destiny or Might Project.docx]]
 * [[file:Destiny or Might? Project Plan.docx]]
 * [[file:Territorial Acquisition GO.docx]]
 * [[file:Argument G.O.docx]]
 * History Alive: 17.9 "Mexican Laws" pg. 237

=Video Resources= Instructions - Click on the Hippocampus icon below. It will take you to our Hippocampus class page. - Find the video(s) listed below on the left side of the screen under "BOOKMARKS."

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 * The Annexation of Texas
 * The Mexican-American War

=Podcast & G-Docs Information=

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 * [[image:podcastformat.001.jpg width="491" height="369"]]


 * [|GarageBand Video Tutorial ('09)]
 * Mr. A's Podcast Sample

=Wiki Pages=
 * 2nd Period
 * 3rd Period
 * 4th Period