In all the texts, the concept of Manifest Destiny motivated Americans to try to possess something that couldn’t be possessed. Manifest Destiny is the belief that the expansion of the United States is justified and inevitable. In “American Progress”, “on Manifest Destiny”, “Reporting to the President”, by John Gast, John O’Sullivan, and Stephen Ambrose, they all are trying to possess land which can’t be kept safe or private from the Native Americans. In the painting, “American Progress”, by John Gast the Angel in the middle of the painting is facing towards the west, the Angel is also holding a book that no one knows what it is. In front of the Angel there is Buffalo and Native Americans sprinting away from the trains, stagecoaches, and the
