US History: Expansion in the 1800s

1789-1815 -- Factories, cities, and families in the Industrial Age: the Industrial Revolution, 1780-1850 -- Coping with change: ideology, politics, and revolution, 1815-1850 -- Nationalism and Statebuilding: unifying nations, 1850-1870 -- Mass politics and imperial domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914 -- Modern life and the culture of progress: Western Society, 1850-1914

Are Americans entitled to a Manifest Destiny? This book explores 13 key issues of Western expansion from the early 1800s through the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Expert commentary and 73 primary documents represent a variety of views on each issue. Documents include presidential letters and speeches, first-person accounts and letters, newspaper and magazine opinion pieces.

Part of a series of historical references, this volume addresses the expansion to the west which occurred in America, starting with the Colonial Frontier and tracing the California Gold Rush and the opening of the plains. Thousands of eyewitness accounts are used as the basis for the work.