Primary Sources: The American West: Manifest Destiny

in The United States Democratic Review Volume 0006 Issue 23 (Nov 1839) pp. 426-430

"This primary source set includes visual, audial, and written documents that reflect the era’s projected ideals and harsh realities. From twentieth-century posters, monuments, and letters to nineteenth-century maps, biographies, and paintings, this set allows students to gain a greater understanding of how perceptions of manifest destiny have changed over time."

"The documents in this set can be used to help students explore westward expansion of the United States and the resulting interactions among the West’s many cultural groups."

This set of primary sources and teaching resources focuses, primarily, on the time period 1800-1860.