What drove the nation westward, and who paid the price?
- Was Manifest Destiny a genuine belief, a justification for taking land, or both — and does the difference matter?
- What does sovereignty mean, and what happened when the nation ignored it?
- What can layered maps show us about expansion that a textbook paragraph cannot?
Signature project: Layered map investigation — students build a map in layers (land, people, treaties, removal) and use it to argue what expansion actually cost.
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