Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny

by Robert J. Miller

Book Overview

Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they discovered. In the United States, the British colonists who had recently become Americans were competing with the English, French, and Spanish for control of lands west of the Mississippi. Who would be the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275990117
• ISBN13: 9780275990114
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"