Manifest Destiny

In my opinion, James K. Polk does not deserve a high ranking for his presidency. According to Lindgren, James K. Polk averaged well above 4.0 on a 5.0 point scale. This study resulted from a survey of 78 scholars who ranked James K. Polk as the 10th best president (Lindgren 3). James K. Polk was elected as the eleventh President of the United States in 1844. According to the video, he was known as the dark horse of the election. James K. Polk was a Democrat and was from Tennessee. Even…

October 29th, 1929. The characters within the novel are attempting to make their way westward across the country – following in the footsteps of many American citizens who, prior to this time period, were pioneers attempting to follow the ideals of Manifest Destiny. During the ten-year-long depression that consumed America in the 1930’s, many Americans completed the same journey that the Joad family are attempting to complete within the novel. The novel, as a whole, depicts a deeply sympathetic…

Theme and other abstract ideas What are the major themes of the work? Provide a short phrase for each theme. Remember, these should not be subjects (like love, war, destiny), but rather what the author is saying about these subjects (love is a force that heals all wounds). The major themes that are in The Crucible, include: Fear manifests people and leads them towards corruption. Religion is a perspective that determines societal behaviors. How is each theme portrayed in the book? (Example: In…

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was considered a “peace treaty”, but it has created an ongoing conflict due to the broken promises and injustices that followed the negotiation. I am researching the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo because I want to know more about the motives for why it was proposed, the consequences that followed, and the effects on the Euro-American and Chicano societies that are still affected by it many decades later. The Mexican-American war began in 1948 after the United States…

The United States raised their people believing that power needed to be balance so that way any group wouldn't dominate the entire country. The southerners wanted to continue to deny the human rights of people because they wanted to have them as property, working for them and doing whatever they liked. They did all this because they wanted to run their farms and business cheaper than the folks ( people who didn't hold people in slavery). When people got tired of all that and wanted their human…

Cowboys and Indians: The United States and the Lasting Legacy of its History of Conquest Ned Blackhawk is a Western Shoshone professor of history and American studies at Yale University. His works have focused primarily on post-Columbian Native American history. Within his work, Blackhawk has argued that ‘the history of conquest has an important though largely ignored legacy in the modern United States’. This essay will be an analytical evaluation of the validity and implications of that…

the story of how America uses its imperialistic powers against the democratic ideals that America advocates for. As the frontiers closes in 1890 in the United States of America the feeling of manifest destiny, and American exceptionalism still exist. Interventionist in America feel that it is their destiny to guide other countries such as the Philippines into the right path because they are the chosen people. Interventionalists want to spread democratic ideals to other countries. US president…

out tedious work, the better it would do economically for the owners. As a result, people became more obsessed with the idea to gain an economic advancement, continue slavery as an emerging activity, and furthermore reach their own concept of manifest destiny. The threat upon doing well economically and continuing slavery was by the 1787 Northwest Ordinance that abolished slavery in the Northwest territories, and through international trade which ended in 1808. As a result, when…

elected President in 1844 as the dark horse candidate. Before Polk was elected president he served in the Tennessee legislature and the U.S. Congress. Not all American’s were supportive of the Mexican-American War, many opposed it. Polk believed in manifest destiny, which was the belief that Americans had a god given right to expand the border all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The Americans not only thought they had a right to the land, they believed that they…

There are many reasons to why Texas embarked on its revolution. Such causes are the idea of manifest destiny, racism present between the different cultures in the area, governmental issues with settlers, the geographic of Texas, and most importantly the institution of slavery. Americans thought of themselves having the authority from a higher power to keep expanding west until reaching a coast. Even though Texas was a part of Mexico, most of the land was inhabited. So, Anglos deemed it okay to…