Manifest Destiny Image Center
Directions:
Researchers often study images as a way to better understand a place or time in history.
1. Study the image below.
2. What do you notice first? What else do you see?
3. Notice the direction that most people, animals and objects are moving. Why do you think that is?
4. Think: Is this image trying to convey a mood or message?
5. Choose one of these prompts/questions to respond in your notebook:
1. Study the image below.
2. What do you notice first? What else do you see?
3. Notice the direction that most people, animals and objects are moving. Why do you think that is?
4. Think: Is this image trying to convey a mood or message?
5. Choose one of these prompts/questions to respond in your notebook:
- I see…. This makes me think…. I wonder….
- What is the difference between how the settlers and Native Americans are being portrayed?
- What do you think the artist was trying to say?
- Westward Expansion was a time of great change – what does this image teach about change during this time period?
- The female figure was meant to be symbolic – what do you think she represented?