Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Page:Manifest Destiny in the West.pdf/12 Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Cultural belief of 19th-century American expansionists For other uses, see Manifest Destiny (disambiguation). American Progress (1872) by John Gast is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Columbia, a personification of the United States, is shown leading ...
American Progress, a painting of profound historical significance, has become a seminal example of American Western Art.Serving as an allegory for manifest destiny and American westward expansion, this 11.50 by 15.75 inches (29.2 cm × 40.0 cm) masterpiece was commissioned in 1872 by George Crofutt, a publisher of American Western travel guides and has since been frequently reproduced.
Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2319-8. Nevins, Allan (1947). Ordeal of the Union: Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847–1852. New York, Scribner. Niven, John (1988). John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography. Louisiana State ...
The goal of the slogan was to rally Southern expansionists (some of whom wanted to annex only Texas in an effort to tip the balance of slave/free states and territories in favor of slavery) to support the effort to annex Oregon Country, appealing to the popular belief in manifest destiny. The British government, meanwhile, sought control of all ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Manifest destiny Nullification crisis Mexican–American War
William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary.In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of "manifest destiny", Walker organized unauthorized military expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establishing colonies.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the American Civil War: American Civil War – civil war in the United States of America that lasted from 1861 to 1865. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy."