In the first edition of this publication, its founder wrote “all history has to be rewritten” and declared, “we have no interest in the scenes of antiquity, only as lessons of avoidance of nearly all their examples.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this publication that promoted early works by Whitman, Hawthorne, and Elizabeth Browning and coined the term “manifest destiny.”
ANSWER: Democratic Review [or The United States Magazine and Democratic Review] (The quotes came from “The Great Nation of Futurity” by John L. O’Sullivan.)
[10m] The periodical’s slogan “The best government is that which governs least” was “heartily” accepted in this tract, which harangues “merchants and farmers” in Massachusetts who “are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico.”
ANSWER: “Civil Disobedience” [or “Resistance to Civil Government” or “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”] (by Henry David Thoreau)
[10e] Supporters of “manifest destiny” backed Narciso López’s expedition to annex this territory. The Teller Amendment signaled this territory’s independence in response to President McKinley.
ANSWER: Cuba [or Captaincy General of Cuba or Capitanía General de Cuba]
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