I.B.8.5

Describe, explain and analyze the aims and impact of western expansion and the settlement of the United States, to include:<ol type="a"><li>American belief in manifest destiny and how it led to the Mexican war and its consequences</li><li>comparison of African American and Native American slavery; westward migration of peoples (e.g., Oregon, California, Mormons and southwest)</li><li>origins and early history of the women's movement</li></ol>