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Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the concept of manifest destiny and examines the diplomatic deals and wars that brought new territories under American control and allowed the country to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.
2) Manifest destiny: a primary source history of America's territorial expansion in the 19th century
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of America's territorial expansion, the ways in which it was done, and the term 'manifest destiny' that was popularized by newspaper editor John O'Sullivan in 1845.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping history of the 1840s that captures America's enormous sense of possibility and shows how the extraordinary expansion of territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep rift that would bring war just a decade later.
Author
Publisher
Rio Nuevo Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A century and a half before the Kennedys and the Clintons, the Fremonts and the Custers were American power couples. Indeed, John and Jessie Fremont, and George and Libbie Custer pioneered the phenomenon. So what made the Fremonts and Custers so famous? In popular culture, the husbands became all-American if tarnished heroes. Fremont was renowned as "the Pathfinder" who mapped swaths of the West in five expeditions and helped lead America's conquest...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation. To honor his righteous commitment to a new...