Geographers View

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Geographers View of Manifest Destiny Joe
Leeper and Dennis Fitzsimons Department of
Geography Humboldt State University Teaching
American History February 7, 2008
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1872, American Progress John Gast
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1872 American Progress -- John Gast
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American Progress A diaphanously and precarious
clad America floats westward thru the air with
the Star of Empire on her forehead. She has
left the cities of the east behind, and the wide
Mississippi, and still her course is
westward. In her right hand she carries a school
book testimonial of the national enlightenment,
while with her left she trails the slender wires
of the telegraph that will bind the
nation. Fleeing her approach are Indians,
buffalo, wild horses, bears, and other game,
disppearing into the storm and waves of the
Pacific Coast. They flee the wonderous vision
the Star is too much for them. --
Precis of a contemporary description of this
painting by George Crofutt who distributed his
engraving of it widely.
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1860, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
Emanuel Leutze
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1858, Twilight in the Wilderness Frederic Edwin
Church
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1867, The Oregon Trail Albert Bierstadt
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1875, Progress of America Tojetti
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Manifest Destiny Oil (Marouflage) 37" x 53"
Rick Fender Collin County Community
College Dallas, TX
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And that claim is by the right of our manifest
destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of
the continent which Providence has given us for
the development of the great experiment of
liberty and federated self-government entrusted
to us.
The phrase was coined in 1845 by journalist John
L. O'Sullivan, now generally remembered only for
his use of the phrase to advocate the annexation
of Texas and Oregon.
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Lewis Clark Trail
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The Oregon Trail
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The Oregon Trail
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May 10, 1869, Promontory, Utah
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It is America's right to stretch from sea to
shining sea. Not only do we have a responsibility
to our citizens to gain valuable natural
resources we also have a responsibility to
civilize this beautiful land.
... The American claim is by the right of our
manifest to overspread and to possess the whole
of the continent which Providence has given for
the development of the great experiment of
liberty and federative self-government entrusted
to us. It is a right such as that of the tree to
the space of air and earth for the full expansion
of its principle and destiny of growth...
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America has no right to take the lands west of
the Louisiana Territory. Those lands are
rightfully owned by Mexico and to enter into
conflict with the Mexicans just to expand and
take that land would violate the principles of
this great nation.
Manifest Destiny More blood on the hands of
ChristThey called themselves ChristiansAnd gave
themselves the rightsDisguised as
missionariesThey were really after goldMany
Indians died for thatHow manys never told
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List and describe the reasons that are given in
support of Manifest Destiny. a) b) c) d)
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List and describe the reasons that are given in
rejection of Manifest Destiny. a) b) c) d)
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Charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hillby
Frederic Remington, 1899
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1850-90
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1847, Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico John
Disturnell
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Lewis and Clark, ESRI
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2004, Manifest Destiny Alexis Rockman
Alexis Rockman's Manifest Destiny (8x24 feet,
oil and acrylic on wood, 2004). Consulting with
experts in various fields, the artist crafted a
view 3000 years in the future past the ruins of
the Brooklyn Bridge, following a sea-level rise
caused by global warming. Included are the wrecks
of a Dutch sailing ship and a 20th-century
submarine, tropical plants and animals, and a
two-tailed salmon resulting from genetic
manipulation.
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R. Crumb A Short History of America
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