Lecture 18Visual Culture of Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion

April 1, 2025

Upon completion of this module, which includes Lectures 18 and 19, students will have accomplished the following:

MLO 10.1: Students will recognize how mass publication of images created by painters and photographers traveling in the newly opened territories encouraged westward migration from eastern states, as discussed in Lecture 18.
MLO 10.2: Students will be able to decipher the various symbols and other messaging used in 19th-century visual culture centered on ideas of Manifest Destiny, as illustrated in Lecture 18.
MLO 10.3: Students will recognize various types of ephemera related to westward expansion, including such printed items as train tickets, posters advertising land, and land grant certificates, as described in Lecture 18.
MLO 10.4: Students will recognize the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad in supplying European American settlers with the supplies necessary to their survival in newly opened western territories, as discussed in Lecture 18.
MLO 10.5: Students will recognize the ways the Homestead Act and Dawes Act made westward expansion possible, and the impact of those laws on Native Americans as well as on African American and European American settlers, as discussed in Lecture 18.

In this module, you will:

Watch: Lecture 18: Visual Culture of Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion (see videos below)
Watch: Lecture 19: Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Reconstruction (to be published Thursday)
Complete: Lecture Quiz 18/19 (to be published Thursday)
Complete Video Reflection #3: Neil Diamond, Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian

While viewing the slides, be sure to take notes just as you would during a regular face-to-face classroom lecture. This will put you in good shape to take Lecture Quiz 18/19, which is due no later than 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 6th
If you need help spelling some of the key words and names, take a look at the Key Terms list below.
While completing the Lecture Quiz, you are allowed to go back over the lectures and review any of the slides or information. (It is possible to have more than one Canvas tab open at a time.) Good luck!