This is a Scoop.it! with five posts about the class of cultures between the native Americans that lived across the continent and the growing nation of the united states. Most of these articles relate to how the Indians fought back and what was the United States' response to these actions.

1.  Using the sources contributed to the shared google spreadsheet of primary documents, decide on a question you would like to explore related to Manifest Destiny and the impact on the Native American people as a result.

2.  Scan the list of sources, identify 5 that you would like to analyze as they relate to answering your chosen question.  Choose as least one visual source (map, poster, photograph, cartoon)

3.  Register for an account with thinglink.com and scoop.it.

4.  Using thinglink, analyze one of your visual sources.  Drop tags on the image to analyze the information.  When you are done editing tags, do "View Image"

5.  Log in to your scoop.it account.  Install the bookmarklet for adding links.  When you create your page, title it with the question you are answering.  Then add in your thinglink image and 4 additional primary document sources.  The scoop.it should include writing that analyzes the source.

Goal is for you to utilize a new way of presenting information, that is shared, and interactive - while investigating the clash of cultures that transpired when the colonists and American citizens started pushing West.

This video describes what some SLA students were doing during the State of the Union address back in January. The students in this video were given the assignment of making connections between the president's plans for the future and the policies of former presidents. 
These are the thoughts of those SLA students.

My partner (Jakobi) and I decided that we would try to express our project in a format that we don't have a ton of experience with. That would be Prezi. Learning how to navigate the website took a little bit of time, but we knew that the overall presentation was worth the five minutes of figuring out how to operate it. We chose to have a visual theme in a way that showed the process of not only decision-making, but the way ideas circulate and expand before reaching its full potential. We also showed the challenges to both individual and systematic change. We used examples from Teddy Roosevelt and Barack Obama as a basis to show that regardless of the time, the same general concepts and process remain the same.

As a unit, we brainstormed about systematic change first through the basic mindset of fact. Meaning, in general, nothing happens without thought. As a person develops those thoughts, they begin to present them to other people, but there's a confidence and faith in personal opinion that allows a lucid flow of systematic change. In our project, we said, "The judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government embody the means of the people. The executive branch cannot make change alone, but with the agreement of other branches, they create the policies, and shape of America."

Some further questions I have on Business in America are:

-What is the balance between business and government besides financial agreements? In reference to things such as health care and how far the government should intervene in personal life. How do the business respond and manage that type of pressure in those fields?