US History I Unit 4 Challenge 2

US History I Unit 4 Challenge 2 "I am Wallace Franklin: publisher, editor, reporter, and printer of The California Herald. Over the last years, I have done my best to inform the townspeople of political happenings in the East and South of our nation. I write this at the beginning of my memoir because our young nation is at a crossroads, and I feel it necessary to record events while I am still able. In today’s edition of the newspaper, I am including the image of a painting. As I study it, I think it may be representative of the beginnings of our current crisis." The painting portrays the West as an undeveloped wilderness with no other occupants. In this way, the painting reveals the element of manifest destiny that concludes (A) whites are destined to advance civilization. "I have taken to recording my thoughts each evening as I begin to write this chronicle of my life. "I am reminded of an earlier vision of the West. I recall Thomas Jefferson’s conviction that the future of the United States lay to the West and how he attempted to bring this about with his land ordinances and, of course, the Louisiana Purchase." That vision is being demonstrated in the idea of . ● the public domain ● federalism ● western expansion ● republicanism ● imperialism ● manifest destiny