Starter 10.1:  How do you see the idea of “manifest destiny” in contemporary American ideology?


President Obama and American leadership:  "That's how we roll"

• My email from the White House:  American Progress?

Goals for the Day

• Contextualize the Mexican-American War by exploring the ideological climate of the times
• Analyze the rhetoric of conflicting media sources during the Mexican-American War

Crash Course US History:  War and Expansion

Mexican-American War  Primary Source Analysis:  Walt Whitman and Frederick Douglass

NO HOMEWORK (if you finish in class)


If there is time...

Preview Thoreau and transcendentalists

• Transcendentalism:  a new ideology for a new kind of country…
• Thoreau protested the Mexican-American War by refusing to pay his taxes.