Monday:   Analyze the westward growth of the nation, including the Louisiana Purchase and Manifest Destiny as well as explain how the Northwest Ordinance established principles and procedures for orderly expansion of the United States.

Tuesday:   Explain the causes and effects of the U.S.-Mexican War and their impact on the United States., the annexation of Texas (28th state), Gadsden Purchase (Reason for this purchase). and the Compromise of 1850  in regards to California admittance to the US.

(Vocabualry quiz Tuesday)

Wednesday:   Examine and describe the positive and negative consequences that influenced the settlement patterns and the economic activities; also what (human) modification of the physical environment of the United States helped with Manifest Destiny.

Thursday:   Students will review westward expansion for their test on Friday.

Friday:  Unit 7:  Westward Expansion (Manifest Destiny)  test