1. Read: Manifest Destiny - Document Overview
2. Read: Report on the Exploring Expeditions to the Rocky Mountains (1843-44), John C. Fremont
3. Read: A Pioneer Woman's Westward Journey (1849)
4. Read: The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth (1856)
5. Read: Polk's Request for War with Mexico (1846)
6. Read: Representative Abraham Lincoln Disagrees with President Polk (1846)

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1. View: Gathering Buffalo Chips
2. View: John Charles Fremont
3. View: Sam Houston
4. View: The Devil Advising Polk to Pursue 54°40´
5. View: 54 degrees 40 minutes or fight
6. View: Zachary Taylor
7. View: Hunting Indians with bloodhounds
8. View: Journalists explore 100th Meridian
9. View: Staff of Daily Reporter at office
10. View: Pony Express rider
11. View: Tree burial, Oglala Sioux
12. View: Zeisberger preaches to the Indian

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1. View: The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842
2. View: Wagon Trails West
3. View: Election of 1844
4. View: The Oregon Dispute, 1818–1846
5. View: The Mexican War: Major Campaigns

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