Week of March 4

Manifest Destiny/Sectional Crisis

Watch: Crash Course 17, War and Expansion

Watch: Crash Course 18, The Election of 1860 and the Road to Disunion

Read: Weber, David. “Many Truths Constitute the Past.” US-Mexican War, 1846-1848. PBS.Com.

http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/aftermath/many_truths.html

Read: “Apuntes’ and the Lessons of History.” US-Mexican War, 1846-1848. PBS.Com. http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/aftermath/apuntes.html

Response Paper 6: What do the two articles suggest about the different ways Americans and Mexicans view the Mexican-American War?  What do they suggest about the complications of history and how different countries see the same events differently? How does it add to or complicate the information in the Crash Course videos or other sources you have used to learn American history?

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