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Westward movement may describe: The ideology of manifest destiny in American history; United States territorial acquisitions involving historical expansion of the United States territory westward; The mural "Westward Movement: Justice of the Plains and Law Versus Mob Rule" by American artist John Steuart Curry
European Voluntary Workers (EVW) was the collective name given to continental Europeans invited by the British government to work in the UK in the immediate Post-World War II period, to help people who have become homeless during the war and to support labor shortages in industry.
A Currier and Ives print from 1868 uses the same title and theme for a very different print, showing a railroad crossing a new settlement as the train goes west. A photographic print and a stereograph by Alexander Gardner, [2] both of an 1867 end-of-track frontier construction train, were titled Westward The Course of Empire Takes Its Way.
The Mormon Trail was used for more than 20 years after the Mormons used it and has been reserved for sightseeing. The initial movement of the Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake occurred in two segments: one in 1846 and one in 1847. The first segment, across Iowa to the Missouri River, covered around 265 miles.
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
Turner begins the essay by calling to attention the fact that the western frontier line, which had defined the entirety of American history up to the 1880s, had ended. He elaborates by stating that, Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital forces that call these organs into life and shape them to meet ...
1784: Britain passes Pitt's India Act. 1787: Britain creates Sierra Leone. 1788: Britain claims and proceeds to settle the eastern half of the continent of Australia. 1791-1804: Haitian Revolution and abolition of slavery by the French First Republic (reestablished by Napoleon in 1804). 1795: Britain invades the Cape region of present-day South ...
Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 (2004), 464pp; Dalziel, Nigel. The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire (2006), 144 pp; Darwin, John. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970 (2009) excerpt and text search; Darwin, John. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (2013 ...