The Meaning of the Frontier Myth by https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2018-03-15 22:09:06 UTC 2024-07-14 12:32:05 UTC hello@padlet.com Columbia, The spirit of the Frontier paul_harkin https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242617974 2018-03-15 22:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242617974 It is "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions". paul_harkin https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242618436 John L O'Sullivan]]> 2018-03-15 22:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242618436 Columbia https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242623862 Columbia first appeared in the poetry of African American, Phillis Wheatley in 1776]]> 2018-03-15 23:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242623862 Columbia https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624450 Often young to middle aged and always wearing stars and stripes ]]> 2018-03-15 23:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624450 In the second half of the 18th century, the American colonists were beginning to acquire a sense of having an identity distinct from that of their British cousins on the other side of the ocean. https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624525 2018-03-15 23:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624525 Attitude towards idea https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624633 uncolumbian - unaustralian]]> 2018-03-15 23:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624633 Exceptionalism https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624667 America's success is due to their values]]> 2018-03-15 23:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624667 By the time of the Revolution, the name Columbia had lost the comic overtone and had become established as an alternative, or poetic name for America. https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624668 2018-03-15 23:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624668 Manifest Identity: https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624756 Settlers destined to expand across North America

Expression of conviction in morality and value of expansionism (American Exceptionalism)

"Extending the area of freedom"]]> 2018-03-15 23:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624756 Columbia https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624935 The name "Columbia" rapidly came to be applied to a variety of items reflecting American identity. ]]> 2018-03-15 23:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242624935 Columbia- Goddess of war https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242625228 2018-03-15 23:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242625228 https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242625795 2018-03-15 23:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242625795 https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626396 God has given America and special burden and power]]> 2018-03-15 23:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626396 Manifest Destiny https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626487 Economic depressions in 1819 and 1839, as well as rapid population growth throughout the 1800's left many people heading west, searching for land and opportunities.

- 1800: 5 Million people
- 1850: 23 Million people]]> 2018-03-15 23:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626487 Ideology of Manifest Destiny https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626494  There were never any set principles laid down with Manifest destiny. Therefore it became a general cultivation of American views such as American exceptionalism, Romantic Nationalism and “extending the area of freedom]]> 2018-03-15 23:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626494 “We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand…”This quote is great for representing the ideals that came with the concept of “Manifest Destiny”. This man is relating himself to biblical texts and the expansion of America as similar to those chosen by god to survive the great flood. https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626671 2018-03-15 23:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626671 Exceptionalism https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626842  Americans have a duty to ensure “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from Earth” 
- Abraham Lincoln ]]> 2018-03-15 23:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626842 Justification of Manifest destiny https://padlet.com/paul_harkin/79j01uaxyhdi/wish/242626982 To conquer and steal the Indians land and resources needed justification, justification the Americans found in religion and American Exceptionalism. A mindset that they were Gods chosen people who had convinced themselves their values had made them superior. 

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