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

Weekly Writing 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?