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Gast uses his painting to tell the message that the United States is destined to expand West. Technology, such as railroads and telegraph wires, is moving west as well as many people. ... The painting illustrates that the West is a dark and savage land, populated by Indians and wild beasts.

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American Progress (1872) is a patriotic painting by John Gast portraying the beauty of our country’s expansion. Yet, was America’s expansion this destined, peaceful movement of the country spreading west? In the painting, Gast shows that it was the America’s destiny to expand, spread technology, and civilize the untamed west.

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