Democracy in America

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Democracy in America

1/11/2017

War news from Mexico

The Mexican American War was a battle for the west. It started with Texas and the Alamo. Santa Ana was called the Napoleon of the West. Below are links I would like you to use to work on this Wednesday's Wayback. Again we are dealing with the news of war and the political discussion that comes about from such conflicts. Remember the expansion of the country is happening. The ideas of Manifest Destiny is also taking place. Manifest Destiny is a term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. Further are states entering into the union slave or free?
Link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/walters-art-museum-exhibits-baltimore-artist-woodville/2013/03/07/99cecf22-85dc-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html

Also Alexis De Tocqueville was a political thinker that wanted to understand America better.
we will have four writings by the thinker. At times books have used the painting above for his writings on Democracy. There will be PDFs that you can read to see what he said. Please let me know if you want to know more. We may talk in class about this for notebook 10.

Mexican America War maps
A map
B map
C map
D. Please look at all three maps and let me know what similarities and differences we can see and please take notes for this on an input.
Extra credit: Can you name this painting?

Like the salons of the greeks and romans to discuss the politics of the day.

So try and remember that all these issues are happening simultaneously. Good luck and may the Force be with you.

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