Manifest Destiny and the Expansion of America - Rodney P. Carlisle - Google Books

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This volume poses "what if" questions about ten crucial "tipping points" in the history of U.S. expansionism between 1800 and the Civil War. It not only describes what happened--in the case of Lewis and Clark, the War of 1812, the Monroe Doctrine,…