Western Expansion and the Second World War Jon Hale College of Charleston.

Western Expansion and the Second World WarJon HaleCollege of Charleston

Daniel Boone, 1734-1820

Veteran of the Revolutionary War

“adopted” by Shawnee in 1778

Elected to Virginia General Assembly

Frontiersman and land speculator after the war

Kentucky and Ohio

Travels the Cumberland Gap

“Daniel Boone Protects His Family,” by Henry Schile (1874)

“The Light of the World”The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Isaiah 4:

It is claimed by many observers that a two-horse wagon has never gone where the Bible did not go first. It is certainly a significant fact that international commerce has everywhere followed in the wake of the gospel. The intrepid missionary invaded the wilds of China, India, Madagascar and the islands of the southern sea long before the trading ships of the merchants dared to enter their ports. Everywhere the foul and ravenous beasts of tyranny, ignorance and superstition have retired at the introduction of the glorious light of the cross. Christianity has blazed the pathway and civilization has followed. Now the rainbow arch of the gospel spans the continents and seas, from Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strands, and we seem to hear the glad should of ten million ransomed souls who sing with the ancient Psalmist, "The entrance of thy word giveth Light."

Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, alternatively Westward Ho! (1860) Emanuel Leutze

"American Progress." (1872). John Gast

Displacement of Native Americans

Civilization Fund Act (1819)

Indian Removal Act (1830)

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)

Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

Dawes Act (1887)

Mexican American War, 1846-1848

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848

1/3 of Mexican territory ceded to the United States ($15 million)

Citizenship to 80,000 Mexican citizens

Included property rights

Axis Powers