Manifest destiny in high gear

Year Published: 1955

Creator: John Francis Bannon KETC St. Louis William J. Lesko

Format: 16mm

Description: Discusses the mid-nineteenth century push to the Pacific. Characterizes the period as one of adolescent optimism, cockiness, and self-assurance, idealism, and disregard for other's rights and feelings. Suggests that by reaching the Pacific, Americans had fulfilled their destiny. (KETC) Kinescope.

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