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Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny. N ationalism that swept the nation  demanded more territory . “Every man is equal" mentality of the Jacksonian Era fueled this optimism. T erritory up to the Mississippi River claimed and settled  Louisiana Purchase explored .

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Manifest Destiny

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  1. Manifest Destiny • Nationalism that swept the nationdemandedmore territory. • “Every man is equal" mentality of the Jacksonian Era fueled this optimism. • Territory up to the Mississippi River claimed and settledLouisianaPurchase explored. • Americans headed west in droves. Newspaper editor JOHN O'SULLIVAN coined the term "MANIFEST DESTINY" in 1845 to describe the essence of this mindset.

  2. American Progress by John Gast

  3. The American Vortex Chicago, Illinois at the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive

  4. Michigan and Wacker How does the Michigan and Wacker story help connect he dots of Manifest Destiny? (American Progress painting)?

  5. United States, 1840

  6. 1673 Jacques Marquette Louis Joilet

  7. 1779, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable • Father: French • Mother: African slave • Born: Caribbean • Married a Potawatomie native american • 2 Children3 continent children

  8. 1812, Fort Dearborn

  9. 1815, Illinois-Michigan canal

  10. 1842, Cyprus McCormick’s Reaper Cut down busheling of wheat from 3 hours to 10 minutes Moved from Virginia to Chicago where the farms were BIGGER and MORE people were sure to be moving

  11. Carl Sandburg poem: “HOG Butcher for the World, 
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, 
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; 
Stormy, husky, brawling, 
City of the Big Shoulders: Chicago”

  12. The American Vortex Choose 1 event as THE EVENT that connects the dots between: Gast’s American Progress & Michigan & Wacker How was this event vital to American Manifest Desinty?

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