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19 th Century: More Exploration Narratives.  Why? Why.

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2 19 th Century: More Exploration Narratives.  Why? Why

3 What is Manifest Destiny?  expansion throughout continent = justified & inevitable  Expansion = our destiny

4 What did the average American imagine??

5 Imagining the Unknown…  Reflects the individual perceiver  your own perspective/ideals  Different for each reader/viewer/listener

6 Essential Question  How do Manifest Destiny and Romanticism relate? (Similar? Different?)

7 Encountering the Sublime  Explorers see new breath-taking landscapes  Painters depict them  Writers describe them  Readers picture them

8 Essential Vocab: Sublime  Sublime (adj) : beautiful and terrifying at the same time.  Inspiring awe  Evoking great fear and ecstasy

9 Beautiful vs. Sublime?

10 John Wesley PowellPowell  1 st white person to navigate the Colorado River (1869)  Described the Grand Canyon in his journals  How does he ‘paint the picture’ for us?


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