HIST 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Wage Labour, Hudson River School, Print Culture

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2003
• Professor: Schieffler

Document Summary

Lesson 13a: moving west manifest destiny to 1850. Manifest destiny is important on how the u. s thinks abut westward movement, westward momentum, and westward ideology. Americans start to see what wage labor is actually like. Many of them revel against the idea of a wage labor factory system that would create a sense of xed social classes. Opposed to that because they knew they were better. Thought that they were selected by god for this great human experiment, a society where freedom and liberty would be the central idea of the system. Being able to expand on god"s territory was the central part of the manifest destiny. Manifest destiny was the idea that the u. s had a god given right to spread the unique vision of american freedom into the frontier area. That the u. s had the god given right to expand westward. Manifest destiny idea showed through american artwork. 3 paintings from a famous school the hudson river school.