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  1. History Lessons
  2. U.S. History
  3. Slavery and Expansion
  4. Manifest Destiny
Topic: U.S. History
Time Period: Slavery and Expansion

Manifest Destiny

The United States vastly expanded its territory in the 1840s. In this Opening Up the Textbook (OUT) lesson, students examine a present-day textbook passage and four nineteenth-century sources to explore what motivated American territorial expansion at the time.

[Teacher Materials, Student Materials and PowerPoint updated on 04/23/2021.]

Image: American Progress, painted by John Gast in 1872. From the Library of Congress.

Image: American Progress, originally painted by John Gast in 1872. Cromolithograpgh published by George A. Croffut in 1873. From the Library of Congress.

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