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Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny. Trends in Antebellum America: 1810-1860. Besides westward expansion there were 6 other trends: New intellectual and religious movements. Social reforms. Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in America.

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Manifest Destiny

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  1. Manifest Destiny

  2. Trends in Antebellum America: 1810-1860 • Besides westward expansion there were 6 other trends: • New intellectual and religious movements. • Social reforms. • Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in America. • Re-emergence of a second party system and morepolitical democratization. • Increase in federal power  Marshall Ct. decisions. • Increase in American nationalism (feeling of patriotism or loyalty to one’s country).

  3. What is Manifest Destiny? • Manifest – clear or obvious • Destiny – future or fate

  4. “Manifest Destiny” • First coined by newspaper editor, John O’Sullivan in 1845. • ".... the right of our manifest destiny to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment ofliberty and federaltive development of self-government entrusted to us. It is right such as that of the tree to the space of air and the earth suitable for the full expansion of its principle and destiny of growth." • A myth of the West as a land of romance and adventure emerged.

  5. “American Progress” by John Gast, 1872

  6. The Oregon Trail – Albert Bierstadt, 1869

  7. Westward the Course of EmpireEmmanuel Leutze, 1860

  8. Melish Map, 1816

  9. Melish’s comments on his 1816 map of the United States To present the country this way was desirable… The map shows at a glance the whole extent of the United States territory from sea to sea In tracing the probable expansion of the human race from east to west, the mind finds an agreeable resting place on its western limits. The view is complete and leaves nothing to be wished for. It also adds to the beauty and symmetry of the map.

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