Military officers surveyed an expanded United States. The United States secured its “Manifest Destiny” in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe ending...
Mapping the Territories
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The Army Corps of Topographical Engineers
The United States secured its “Manifest Destiny” in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe ending the Mexican War. Mexico agreed to give up its claim to...
Did the Devil Make Me Do It?
Manifest Destiny, westward expansion and the California gold rush were fertile topics for humorists and satirists of the 1840s and 1850s. “A man...