
From Sea To Shining Sea - The Story Of American Expansion
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Ellis Gaines

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The journey begins with the chaotic, overlapping charters of the colonial era and the first great challenge of the new republic: convincing the original states to surrender their western claims to create a "common inheritance" for all. Discover the system codified in the Land and Northwest Ordinances, which provided a revolutionary blueprint for turning wilderness into a series of new, equal states. This unique process of state-making established the political machinery that would fuel the nation's relentless push westward.
Witness the staggering leaps of nineteenth-century expansion, from the Parisian deal that doubled the country's size with the Louisiana Purchase to the war with Mexico that acquired the vast American Southwest. This narrative explores the diplomacy, conflicts, and the powerful belief in a Manifest Destiny that drove the United States to the shores of the Pacific. It also delves into the profound internal strife this growth created, as the addition of each new territory ignited the sectional crisis over slavery, ultimately precipitating the Civil War.
Just as the continental frontier closed, the nation's gaze turned outward, beginning a new chapter of overseas expansion driven by a quest for naval power and global markets. This book chronicles the acquisition of an empire, from the purchase of Alaska to the conflict that delivered Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. It also touches on the parallel story of the nation that formed to the north, as the Dominion of Canada's creation set a permanent limit to American expansion and solidified the continental map we know today.
From Sea To Shining Sea is the biography of the land itself, a narrative of how the physical body of the nation was assembled. It is a journey across more than two centuries of purchase and conquest, diplomacy and discovery, and rebellion and resolution. By following the shifting borders and the political maneuvering that dictated the nation's form, you will come to see the map not as a static object, but as a living document with a grand, complex, and unfinished history.
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