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What did the United States need to gain in order to reach its manifest destiny?
Frank Brunnemann
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What was the idea of manifest?
The United States should extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
How did Manifest Destiny lead the US into armed conflict with Mexico?
Americans believed that no other nation should be allowed to keep the United States from fulfilling its destiny. "Manifest Destiny"- (meaning obvious or undenniable fate) The war against Mexico helped the U.S. achieve its manifest destiny by defeating Santa Anna's forces and capturing the Mexican capital of September 14th, bringing the war to an end.
How did manifest destiny contribute to the American expansion to the pacific?
Manifest Destiny was the idea that American expansion was a good idea and be supported. With this, President Polk aimed towards getting Americans to move to the West in order to spread out within the United States and develop more land. Americans felt supported to move with this belief.
What did the US need to gain in order to reach its Manifest Destiny?
land
What did the US need to gain in order to reach manifest destiny?
land
Why did John O' Sullivan coin the phrase manifest destiny?
He wanted to include Texas into the Union. In order to so so, he would use the phrase "manifest destiny," sort of as his slogan for support.
Why did businessmen want the united States expand into the pacific?
In order to make money in pacific territories and nations.
What did the manifest destiny mean?
The United States should reach from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.Manifest destiny was the idea that it was the nation's destiny to expand across the continent to the Pacific.
Was fulfilling our manifest destiny a glorious American achievement or an American tragedy?
It was most definitely an achievement! Most media will tell you manifest destiny means expanding America from sea to shining sea but there is so much more to it than that. When the founders talked about manifest destiny they were referring to the destiny to be "an example and a blessing to the entire human race." - Cleon Skousen, The 5000 Year Leap America was meant to spread from sea to shining sea in order to be an example and a blessing. However, today America is no longer fulfilling it's destiny.
What did Americans mean by the concept of manifest destiny?
Manifest Destiny, completed by our 11th President, James K. Polk. The meaning of Manifest Destiny was to stretch the American land and people to the Pacific Coast. The treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase completed the idea of Manifest Destiny.
How did manifest destiny come into play in the Mexican war?
In order for Manifest Destiny to be complete, the US had to obtain land in the American Southwest which, at the time, belonged to Mexico.
Why did manifest destiny happen in 1845?
Manifest Destiny was the term used to describe the idea in the United States, beginning in the 1840s, that the US was destined to expand from ocean to ocean and all of North America from north to south. It developed, in part, from a great surge of nationalism (patriotism) following the War of 1812, as the nation expanded west. Because of our economic and political superiority, and due to the rapid growth of our population, and because it was God's will, our superior civilization should take over the others on the continent. In 1845, John L. O'Sullivan wrote an article about the annexation of Texas and first used the term, manifest destiny. The idea was revived toward the end of the 1800's during the Spanish-American War, and also led to the the US becoming an imperialistic nation at the turn of the century.
