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Analyze the ESP characteristics created in the USA during Westward Expansion • We have always liked to move around and move west…it’s been part of our DNA since the 1600s and continues into next year. • How can we move west? Build these!!! • Timeframe? – When does it start & end? • What fuels expansion? – Think ESP • Here are the figures (no major immigration yet!) – 1780 = 2.7 million – 1800 = 5.2 million – 1820 = 9.4 million – 1830 = 12 million • What do you notice? • What does this mean about/for the USA and society? • What is this painting describing? What is the theme/mood of it? • Means “Obvious and Undeniable Fate” – John L. O’Sullivan wrote the phrase in 1845 • It was the nation’s “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.” – Thoughts on the quote? Paraphrase it • Belief that works along Manifest Destiny • Belief that the USA will encompass all of North Amer • Started… after Florida was taken in 1819 from Spain