What is this painting?

1. What is this painting?

2. Manifest Destiny Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

3. Antebellum America: 1810-1860 • Huge changes are happening. • Country is Growing/People are moving • Industrial Revolution is starting • Changing Ideas (Slavery & Gov. Power)

4. “Manifest Destiny” • First coined by newspaper editor, John O’Sullivan in 1845. • “[It is].... our manifest destiny to spread over and to possess the whole of the continent which God has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty …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 • What is Manifest Destiny? • Who is in the painting?

6. “American Progress” by John Gast, 1872

7. “American Progress” by John Gast, 1872 • What is Manifest Destiny? • Who is in the painting?

9. Manifest Destiny • Nation needed more land for its growing population • Fear of losing out or falling behind. • Bring growth and freedom and democracy to new places • Nearly religious purpose • It was a moral right. • Destroying peoples and taking their lands was OK

10. “American Progress” by John Gast, 1872 • What is Manifest Destiny? • Who is in the painting?

11. Once the idea had been given the name 'Manifest Destiny' it became widely used, appearing in newspapers, debates, paintings and advertisements. It became the leading light for westward expansion Manifest Destiny in 1840s America

12. 1841 For a small fee, an American could buy 160 acres of Great Plains land from the Government. To keep it, all you had to do was build a house and live on it for 5 years. The Homestead Act

13. Overland Immigration to the West • Between 1840 and 1860, more than250,000 people made the trekwestward.

14. So, How has our nation grown?

15. US Territorial Expansion When? A - 13 Original Colonies • 1776 From Where? • Great Britain Why? • US declared independence from Great Britain A

16. US Territorial Expansion When? • 1783 B - Western Lands From Where? • Great Britain Why? • Part of results of Treaty of Paris (ended Revolutionary War) A B

17. US Territorial Expansion When? • 1803 C - LouisianaPurchase From Where? • France Why? • Napoleon needed $ • Jefferson wanted to buy New Orleans • He got all of this instead! A C B

18. US Territorial Expansion When? D - Florida • 1819 From Where? • Spain Why? • Andrew Jackson invaded • Spain then sold it to us for $5 million C A B D

19. (don’t write this down!! Just think!) Why weren’t Americans happy with the size of their country at this point in their history? Thinking Question

20. US Territorial Expansion When? E - Texas • 1845 From Where? • Republic of Texas C Why? B A • Texas independent from Mexico in 1836 • Northerners feared it would become a slave state • Fears finally overcome in 1944 Presidential election E D

21. US Territorial Expansion When? F - Oregon Territory • 1846 From Where? • Great Britain F Why? • Claimed by four countries (G. Britain, Russia, Spain, & US) • Americans demanded “54° 40’ or fight!” • Britain compromised 49° & US accepted C B A E D

22. US Territorial Expansion When? G - Mexican Cession • 1848 From Where? • Mexico F Why? C • Polk offers to buy G from Mexico & they refuse • War! • US wins • In Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, US offers $15 million for G A B G E D