John Gast made this painting because of the Manifest Destiny. There is very little information about him because he wasn’t that well known or why he did these paintings. The painting was made in 1872. What I think this painting means when I first saw it was that it probably means peace between the settlers
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instance‚ it has a high tolerance for nonconformity. Would you believe that one software tester comes to work every day dressed in extravagant Victorian outfits? But the underlying theme that unites Microsofties is the belief that the firm has a manifest destiny to change the world. The least consequential decision by a programmer can have an outsized importance when it can affect a new release that might be used by 50 million people. Microsoft employees are famous for putting in long hours.
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the methods of the past through its pursuit of new economic and political motives. American imperialism of the late 1800s and early 1900s demonstrated the same cultural and social justification of previous expansionism. The original doctrine of Manifest Destiny‚ which emerged in the 1840s to accompany westward continental expansion‚ advocated a belief that America was destined by God to expand its borders across the continent in order to spread the blessings of liberty. As Senator Albert J. Beveridge
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant‚ without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations. ~Francis John McConnell I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. ~Wendell
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Americans believed that we must expand our borders in order to keep the country running upright. Also‚ the Americans believed that the United State‚ being one of the strongest of the nations‚ had a need to become even stronger. This is shown in the "manifest destiny" of the 1840’s. Apart from the similarities‚ there were also several differences that included the American attempt to stretch their empire across the seas and into other parts of the world. Throughout history‚ the United States had come off
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Back in the day‚ America was obsessed with the idea of Manifest Destiny. They had always wanted to be a ruler‚ a leading country‚ but they were not sure how. The purchase of Florida in 1819 may have been an important factor in the creation of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was a term formed in the 1840’s by John L. O’Sullivan. It was the attitude in the 19th century that said America was destined to stretch from coast to coast and expand their territories. They believed the task was given to
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International Involvement Before the Civil War‚ America developed a Manifest Destiny that‚ in part‚ meant the expansion of the original thirteen colonies into a great nation. This meant expanding from the original borders past the Mississippi River toward the Pacific Ocean. As that Manifest Destiny was being fulfilled after the Civil War ended‚ a new Manifest Destiny had been conceived by the U.S. Congress. This new Manifest Destiny began a new period of expansion beyond the boundaries of the continental
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MEEF1-Dossier 2 The American Frontier Doc A - Excerpts from Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy‚ Valley Forge Country Club‚ Valley Forge‚ PA October 29‚ 1960 Doc B – Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States. Stephanie Lemenager University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln‚ NE. 2004. DOC C – American Progress by John Gast (1872) Westward Expansion • Land Ordinance 1785/Northwest Ordinance 1787 • 1821 – Revolution overturned Spanish rule in Mexico‚ U.S. recognized
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Newspaper editor John L. O’Sullivan first used the term manifest destiny in an 1845 article to describe the inevitability surrounding the annexation of Texas. Since then it has come to describe the belief among American settlers and political leaders that it was their God-given right and duty to expand U.S. territory‚ customs‚ and institutions throughout North America from coast to coast. The concept gained traction during the nineteenth century as immigration and land acquisitions‚ including the
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The manifest Destiny was a belief that the settlers had. They believed that they were destined to expand the west throughout the North America. It was their belief that they were supposed to expand the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. They took action and by doing this they gained one million square miles of land that was previously owned by Mexico. This expanded the U.S. The pioneers later settled in the west. They became cash croppers and they grew marketable product. The westward
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