This picture captures the essence of the Western Expansion. Everyone is facing and moving toward the West in this picture. It shows all the modes of transportation on land that was used during Manifest Destiny. The person floating in the air is the Goddess Columbia. I feel that she is leading the townspeople to go west. The covered wagons are what the settlers used on the Oregon Trail heading west. The horse was one of the animals that the settlers used to pull the covered wagons to go west. Trains were not the most popular transportation to go west because they go really slow. People picked them because they could be close to their families and they didn’t have to take care of animals. The stagecoach was used to go West mostly by well known rich people because they were really expensive. All of these people thought that they deserved a more promising future in life and they would find it in the West that is why they call it…

Manifest Destiny.