Manifest Destiny And American Territorial Expansion

Author : Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319104894
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion written by Amy S. Greenberg and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of Amy Greenberg's Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion continues to emphasize the social and cultural roots of Manifest Destiny when exploring the history of U.S. territorial expansion. With a revised introduction and several new documents, this second edition includes new coverage of the global context of Manifest Destiny, the early settlement of Texas, and the critical role of women in America's territorial expansion. Students are introduced to the increasingly influential transnational concept of settler colonialism, while maintaining a central focus on the ideological origins, social and economic impetus, and territorial acquisitions that fueled U.S. territorial expansion in the nineteenth century. Readers of the revised edition will also find an updated bibliography reflecting both the historiography of American expansion and its transnational context, as well as updated questions for consideration.

Author : Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher : Bedford
ISBN 13 : 9780312600488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion written by Amy S. Greenberg and published by Bedford. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy Greenberg examines the social, cultural and political context that gave rise to Manifest Destiny- one of the most influential ideologies in American history. Drawing on primary documents, she explores how it evolved from colonial roots to become a fully articulated rationale in the 1840s for expanding the nation's borders.

Author : Anders Stephanson
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 0809015846
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifest Destiny written by Anders Stephanson and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 1996-01-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John O'Sullivan wrote in 1845, "...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 Liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us", he coined a phrase that aptly describes how Americans from colonial days and into the twentieth century perceived their privileged role. Anders Stephanson examines the consequences of this idea over more than three hundred years of history, as Manifest Destiny drove the westward settlement to the Pacific, defining the stubborn belief in the superiority of white people and denigrating Native Americans and other people of color. He considers it a component in Woodrow Wilson's campaign "to make the world safe for democracy" and a strong factor in Ronald Reagan's administration.

Author : Shane Mountjoy
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438119836
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifest Destiny written by Shane Mountjoy and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the population of the 13 colonies grew and the economy developed, the desire to expand into new land increased. Nineteenth-century Americans believed it was their divine right to expand their territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. "Manifest destiny," a phrase first used in 1839 by journalist John O'Sullivan, embodied the belief that God had given the people of the United States a mission to spread a republican democracy across the continent. Advocates of manifest destiny were determined to carry out their mission and instigated several wars, including the war with Mexico to win much of what is now the southwestern United States. In Manifest Destiny: Westward Expansion, learn how this philosophy to spread out across the land shaped our nation.

Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307277704
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifest Destinies written by Steven E. Woodworth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the 1840s, Manifest Destinies captures the enormous sense of possibility that inspired America’s growth and shows how the acquisition of western territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep fault line that would bring war in the near future. Steven E. Woodworth gives us a portrait of America at its most vibrant and expansive. It was a decade in which the nation significantly enlarged its boundaries, taking Texas, New Mexico, California, and the Pacific Northwest; William Henry Harrison ran the first modern populist campaign, focusing on entertaining voters rather than on discussing issues; prospectors headed west to search for gold; Joseph Smith founded a new religion; railroads and telegraph lines connected the country’s disparate populations as never before. When the 1840s dawned, Americans were feeling optimistic about the future: the population was growing, economic conditions were improving, and peace had reigned for nearly thirty years. A hopeful nation looked to the West, where vast areas of unsettled land seemed to promise prosperity to anyone resourceful enough to take advantage. And yet political tensions roiled below the surface; as the country took on new lands, slavery emerged as an irreconcilable source of disagreement between North and South, and secession reared its head for the first time. Rich in detail and full of dramatic events and fascinating characters, Manifest Destinies is an absorbing and highly entertaining account of a crucial decade that forged a young nation’s character and destiny.

Author : Mark Joy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317878442
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Expansionism, 1783-1860 written by Mark Joy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Seminar Study surveys the history of U.S. territorial expansion from the end of the American Revolution until 1860. The book explores the concept of 'manifest destiny' and asks why, if expansion was 'manifest', there was such opposition to almost every expansionist incident. Paying attention to key themes often overlooked - Indian removal and the US government land sales policy, the book looks at both 'foreign' expansion such as the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and the war with Mexico in the 1840s and 'internal' expansion as American settlers moved west . Finally, the book addresses the most recent historiographical trends in the subject and asks how Americans have dealt with the expansionist legacy.

Author : J. T. Moriarty
Publisher : Rosen Young Adult
ISBN 13 : 9781404201767
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifest Destiny written by J. T. Moriarty and published by Rosen Young Adult. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the events surrounding the concept of Manifest Destiny, discussing the deals and wars that brought new territories under American control and allowed the country to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.

Author : Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521840965
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire written by Amy S. Greenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the potency of Manifest destiny in the antebellum era.

Author : Albert Katz Weinberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258399702
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifest Destiny written by Albert Katz Weinberg and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael A. Morrison
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864323
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and the American West written by Michael A. Morrison and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.