Lesson 17 Manifest Destiny and the Growing Nation Introduction

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• Great Awakening

• Louisiana Purchase

People:

Who coined the term manifest destiny?

• Thomas Gast

• John O'Sullivan

• James Monroe

• Stephen F. Austin

The United States acquired land in all of these ways except

• through war.

• through treaties.

• through settlement.

• through inheritance.

Who is the artist that painted American Progress?

• Thomas Gast

• John O'Sullivan

• Gilbert Stuart

• Thomas Cole

True or False?

The painting American Progress illustrates a view that favored the westward expansion of the United States in the 1800s.

• True

• False

Vocabulary:

to add a territory to a country

• territory

• diplomacy

• annex

• manifest destiny

Vocabulary:

the art of conducting negotiations with other countries

• territory

• diplomacy

• annex

• manifest destiny

Vocabulary:

a region of land; also, a region designated by Congress and organized under a governor

• territory

• diplomacy

• annex

• manifest destiny

Vocabulary:

the belief that it was America's right and duty to spread the nation across the North American continent

• territory

• diplomacy

• annex

• manifest destiny