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Colonisation Pilgrims Puritans Manifest Destiny The Frontier The American Dream Slavery Some Key Points 1 Intro and Colonisation Seeking the true religion, the Puritans fled England and in America attempted to create a nation of saints or the “City Upon A Hill”, an intensely religious, thoroughly righteous community designed to be an example for all of Europe. Manifest Destiny is the historical belief that the United States was destined and divinely ordained by the Christian God to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean. The Frontier was the term applied by scholars to the impact of the zone of unsettled land outside the region of existing settlements of Europeans. That is, as pioneers moved into the frontier zone they were changed significantly by the encounter. The American Dream is the freedom that allows all citizens and most residents of the United States to pursue their goals in life through hard work and free choice. When the popularity of television exploded in the late 1940s and 1950s, westerns quickly became a staple of small-screen entertainment. A great many B-movie Westerns were aired on TV as time fillers, while a number of long-running TV Westerns became classics in their own right. The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union and those countries respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. The Cold war was mainly expressed through: spying weapon development propaganda technological competition the space race nuclear arms race Key Points 3 Cold War The film “High Noon” did not contain such expected western archetypes as chases, violence, action, and picture postcard scenery. Rather, it presented emotional and moralistic dialogue throughout most of the film. Only in the last few minutes were there action scenes. Many people interpret the movie as a comment