Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion : a Brief History with Documents /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Greenberg, Amy S., 1968-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2012]
Series:	Bedford series in history and culture.
Subjects:	Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny > Sources. Territorial expansion. United States > Territorial expansion. United States > Territorial expansion > Sources. United States. Sources.
Online Access:	Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

pt. One Introduction: The "Free Development" of a North American Empire
The Ideological Origins of Manifest Destiny
Territorial Expansion in the Early Republic
Factors Driving Early Expansionism
Expansionism and Indian People
Social Transformations and the Birth of Aggressive Expansionism
Opposing Voices
Andrew Jackson and the March to the Southwest
The Overland Trail
Annexation and War with Mexico
Filibustering: Taking Matters into Their Own Hands
Sectionalism Checks Manifest Destiny
After the Civil War: Manifest Destiny Reevaluated and Redeemed
pt. Two The Documents
1. Ideological Origins
1. Of Plimoth Plantation, 1650 / William Bradford
2. A Modell of Christian Charity, 1630 / John Winthrop
3. Letter to Lord Kames, April 11, 1767 / Benjamin Franklin
2. Expansion in the Early Republic
4. A Commissioner's View of the Ohio River Valley, 1785 / Richard Butler
5. Council of 1793, To the Commissioners of the United States, August 16, 1793
6. The American Geography, 1792 / Jedidiah Morse
7. Letter to Thomas Dwight, October 31, 1803 / Fisher Ames
8. Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1805 / Thomas Jefferson
9. Tecumseh, Appeal to the Osages, 1811
3. Pushing West
10. State of the Union Address, December 6, 1830 / Andrew Jackson
11. Encroachment by White Settlers, 1832 / Black Hawk
12. Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation, June 22, 1836
13. A Plea for the West, 1835 / Lyman Beecher
14. On Land-Lust in America, 1837 / Harriet Martineau
15. An Encounter between Omaha Hunters and White Squatters in Iowa, 1853 / Pathin Nanpaji
16. A Fur Trapper's View of Manifest Destiny, 1839 / Zenas Leonard
17. United States Democratic Review, The Great Nation of Futurity, November 1839
18. Two Years before the Mast, 1840 / Richard Henry Dana
19. The Young American, 1844 / Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Texas and Oregon
20. Letter to President Guadalupe Victoria, June 30, 1828 / Manuel Mier y Teran
21. Letter in Favor of the Reannexation of Texas, January 8, 1844 / Robert J. Walker
22. Letter to the Citizens of Worcester County, Massachusetts, January 23, 1844 / Daniel Webster
23. Inaugural Address, March 4, 1845 / James K. Polk
24. Uncle Sam's Song to Miss Texas, 1845
25. United States Democratic Review, Annexation, July-August 1845
26. Arbitration of the Oregon Question, January 3, 1846 / Robert Winthrop
5. War for Empire
27. Diary Entry, June 30, 1846 / James K. Polk
28. Protesting the Mexican War, 1880 / Jane Swisshelm
29. Godey's Lady's Book, Life on the Rio Grande, April 1847
30. American Workingmen, Versus Slavery, September 1, 1847 / Walt Whitman
31. Speech at Lexington, Kentucky, November 13, 1847 / Henry Clay
32. New York Herald, Public Meeting in Favor of Annexing All of Mexico, January 30, 1848
33. Origin of the War with the United States, 1848 / Ramon Alcaraz
6. Expanded Horizons: Cuba, Hawaii, and Central America
34. Appeal to the Inhabitants of Cuba, April 27, 1848 / La Verdad
35. The Benefits of Annexing Cuba, 1850 / Cora Montgomery
36. Pierre Soule, and John Y. Mason, The Ostend Manifesto, 1854 / James Buchanan
37. Currier and Ives, The "Ostend Doctrine": Practical Democrats Carrying Out the Principle, 1856
38. Traveling through the Pacific, 1859 / T. Robinson Warren
39. Nicaragua Ho!, January 1856 / Young Sam
40. Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent, August 24, 1854 / Martin Delany
41. A Jamaican's View of Americans in Panama, 1857 / Mary Seacole
7. Sectionalism Trumps Manifest Destiny
42. The War in Nicaragua, 1860 / William Walker
43. Hostility to Southern Interests, May 31, 1858 / George Sydney Hawkins
44. Why Southerners Should Oppose Territorial Expansion, January 15, 1855 / William Waters Boyce
8. Manifest Destiny Reevaluated and Redeemed
45. American Progress, ca. 1873 / George A. Crofutt
46. Trouble on the Paiute Reservation, 1865 / Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
47. The March of the Flag, September 16, 1898 / Albert J. Beveridge
Appendixes
A Chronology of Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion (1620-1902)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography.