Dr. Rosalie Uyola compares the Vietnamese and American Declarations of Independence and explains how the Vietnam War caused social unrest on the American home front.

Dr. Rosie Jayde Uyola teaches how Manifest Destiny drove U.S. expansion westward from 1844–1877, intensifying conflicts over land, slavery, and national identity. The Mexican-American War and resulting territorial gains reignited divisions that compromises could no longer contain, ultimately leading to Civil War.

Learning Target: I can evaluate the continuity and change of historical periods. I can make predictions about the context of 1800-1848.

Rosie Uyola supports students as they evaluate the extent to which the federal government responded to internal and external conflicts from 1754 to 1800.

Primary source analyses FFW (5 min; 10 sentences minimum): What do you remember from Hernán Cortés' letter we analyzed during our last class? What ideas did that letter reflect how Cortés viewed the city of Tenochtitlan and the Mexica Indigenous people who built it? What do we know about Hernán Cortés from this letter? Use your notes to help you remember visual evidence. Primary Sources Group Project Working in groups, students choose ONE primary source Analyze using OCPVL fr