(Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. As a result, settlers from far and wide packed up their things to seek fortune and better lives in the west. As this intense religious and expansionist fervor spread widely across the United States, Americans were much more inclined to grip tight in their minds their religious right to settle in the west. Christianity provided justification for Americans to expand westward and the continued encroachment on Native lands to fill the region with America’s idea of civilization. America largely viewed the “unsettled” West as a region lacking Christianity and thus lacking civility. These beliefs at the time related Christian values with civility. The coinage of this term in 1845 was coming fresh off the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century, a strong and widespread religious revival that instilled deep religious beliefs and values amongst many Americans. In hindsight, it is difficult to explain just how influential the idea of “Manifest Destiny” was on the average American. Manifest Destiny asserted that the United States had a god-given right to settle and expand the country westward. Reed passed here and crossed Jordan River nearby About SeptemThis party, consisting of 91 persons, 35 of them children, was delayed 2 weeks building a road via Emigration Canyon, lost some wagons and many animals crossing Great Salt Lake Desert and became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains where 35 of them perished that winterĭuring the 19th century, “Manifest Destiny” came to dominate American culture. The Donner Party led by George and Jacob Donner and James F.
Placed by: Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association, 1931
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