Name: Manifest Destiny
Duration: 115
Description: Historian Matthew Pinsker gives a crash course on the concept of "manifest destiny" and the seeds of westward American expansion.

Historian Matthew Pinsker gives a crash course on the concept of "manifest destiny" and the seeds of westward American expansion.

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Historian Matthew Pinsker gives a crash course on the concept of &#8220;manifest destiny&#8221; and the seeds of westward American expansion.

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<p>Though the 19th century saw the rise of populism, the labor movement and Jacksonian democracy, it also ushered in the Gilded Age, when men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan wielded vast control over politics and business.</p>


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