The woman in the middle of the painting seen putting down telegraph lines is representative of "American Progress." Imagery is everywhere: the farmers tilling the ground, trains and people moving towards the West, Columbia (as the woman is named) laying down telegraph lines, and Native Americans and Buffalo being driven out. Most of the painting is accurate of what was happening at the time: rapid Western expansion and the push-out of the Native Americans who lived in the lands.
The most important form of imagery in this painting is Columbia. In the painting, she guides the settlers and clears the clouds above her, evoking emotion and instilling the idea of Manifest Destiny within people who view the painting.
In 1786, <u>Louisiana</u> was part of Viceroyalty of New Spain, specifically to the Captaincy General of Cuba and the Governor of this territory and Florida was Esteban Rodríguez Miró. He faced the problem of integrating into Spanish <u>Louisiana</u> large numbers of Anglo-Americans. <u>He embarked on a plan in 1785</u>, which would make possible the continued residence of Anglo-American landowners. Spain, eager to populate the province with colonists, already had experienced difficulties inducing Spanish immigrants to the lower Mississippi Valley. Anglo-Americans, under this plan, could become loyal Spanish subjects by fulfilling two requisites: taking an oath of allegiance to the King of Spain and adopting Roman Catholicism as their professed religion. <u>Implementation of this plan began</u> <u>during the spring of 1786 and in this way, the Anglo-American settlement helped to increase the population of Louisiana</u> because it also applied to new settlers who wished to enter the province as permanent residents.
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