Issues of Westward Expansion (Hardcover, Annotated edition)

Are Americans entitled to a Manifest Destiny? This book explores 13 key issues of Western expansion from the early 1800s through the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Expert commentary and 73 primary documents represent a variety of views on each issue. Documents include presidential letters and speeches, first-person accounts and letters, newspaper and magazine opinion pieces, court decisions, and congressional debates. Voices range from those of presidents to ordinary people caught up in the events of the time.

Some of the major topics considered are:

Lewis and Clark's expedition

Indian and Mexican land claims

The effect of western expansion on slavery

Importing Chinese laborers to help build the transcontinental railroad

Government opposition to Mormons settling in the West

Texas annexation

The Homestead Act

The Sand Creek Massacre

The Battle of Little Big Horn

The creation of Yellowstone National Park

Wounded Knee 1890

A narrative overview of each event, an annotated bibliography following each event, and a timeline of key events make this volume an indispensable resource.

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