Manifestdestiny

Paintings on Manifest Destiny

What visual clues describe the ideas of Manifest Destiny?

Learning Log

Directions: Write on your Learning Logs. You will be looking at 3 paintings. Write down at least three clues for each painting that the artist is focusing on Manifest Destiny…

Example:

Painting #1

1. There is a light shining in the west…hints of the Promised land.

2. The Indians are being chased away

3. The Americans are bringing factories for civilization.

Frances Flora Palmer, for Currier and Ives, Across the Continent: Westward the Course of Empire Makes Its Way, 1868.

"American Progress" by John Gast  1872