James Parks

Journeys Through American History: Volume II (eBook, ePUB)

Manifest Destiny Continues West

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Our Country's Founding Fathers, and successive generations of national leaders, believed it was the God-given destiny of America to expand its geographic dominion by spreading democracy and capitalism across the North American continent. Advocates of Manifest Destiny, however, also used it to justify the forceful removal of Native Americans from their homelands in the east and relocate them to reservations in the west, which was profiled in Volume I's "The Cherokee Trail of Tears." We begin this volume by retracing the steps of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which President Jefferson tasked with exploring the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. This acquisition of some 828,000 square miles of territory from the French approximately doubled the size of the United States.

The Louisiana Purchase was followed in later years by armed annexations of Florida and most of America's present day southwest and West Coast from Spain and Mexico. As the Nation's geographic footprint expanded, more emigrants flooded into western lands. Treaties previously negotiated between the Federal Government and Native Americans were frequently broken to make room for the new settlers. Volume II also retraces the historic National Road west, the opening of Unassigned Lands in Indian Territory to settlement, the forgotten Kansas prairie lands, covered bridges and mills in Indiana, and the historic Black Hills region in present day South Dakota.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Creative Communication Inc
• Seitenzahl: 82
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513667539
• Artikelnr.: 60816330

Autorenporträt

James T. Parks has been journeying into America's historic hinterlands for most of his life. He's been writing about and photographing those travels for some 20 years. Having grown up just a few blocks from historic Route 66, his wanderlust began early in life. Although interested in all aspects of America, many of his expeditions have been away from the heavily trafficked tourist destinations. He particularly likes to find America's forgotten corners and unique places that make the fabric of life in our country so rich and interesting. If getting there involves scenic, curvy roads, all the better. He has been a contributor to RoadRUNNER magazine since his first tour with its founder, Christian Neuhauser, in 2003. Although not a trained academic, he has a strong passion for combining human and geological history into his travels and writings to give readers a deep understanding of the context of places and times in history.