Manifest Destiny: ingredients —American exceptionalism —Puritanism: “the elect” —Millennialism —“noble savage” > “savage” —Racism —Capitalism (“grow or die”) —Slavery: expand, or abolish? —“Lebensraum” destiny.jpg John Gast, 1872 Territorial expansion MD_map.jpg Currier & Ives print (by Frances Bond Palmer and James Ives, 1868) course of empire.jpg Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (6.1 m × 9.1 m) - Emmanuel Leutze, 1861 – US Capitol Emanuel_Leutze_-_Westward_the_Course_of_Empire_Takes_Its_Way_-_Smithsonian.jpg Albert Bierstadt, Emigrants Crossing the Plains (1867) emigrantsfull.jpg us-imperialism.jpg Lydia Kamakaeha Liliuokalani liliuokalani-02-398x461.jpg The real Liliuokalani liliuokalani.jpg Imperialism Cartoon.jpg hardlyknow.jpg 58172-art-american-imperialism.jpg Manifest Destiny, 1898 version 10kMiles.JPG A Spanish-American war propaganda photo Spanish-American War.jpg Philippines, 1898… imperialism_stunt_im.jpg China, Boxer Rebellion, 1900 — —Imperialist pizza party: Queen Victoria, Kaiser Wilhelm, Tsar Nicholas, “Marianne,” and (probably) the Meiji Emperor boxer-rebellion-cartoon.jpg USS Missouri, 1900 wisconsin6.jpg Manifest destiny, World War I version manifest2.jpg fuckoff.jpg 118698_600.jpg usbases.jpg http://www.expansionistparty.org/Canada.html manifest_destiny_tshirt-p235074856938040619yefj_400.jpg flagonmoon.jpg “When we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state". – Newt Gingrich, 2011 198star_flagstil.jpg