It encouraged the pioneers to settle farther west and south.
The Manifest Destiny allowed the United States to expand to the west. At the time, it is believed that California was the most important state to this expansion.
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It was not just one individual state that played a role in manifest destiny. It was the many states that Polk believed the United States should expand into towards the west. One of the most inflentual states would be Oregon since the term manifest destiny was coined during the Oregon boundary dispute.
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The Missouri Compromise's latitudinal division of the United States had become a barrier to the spirit of Manifest Destiny due to sectional hostilities. Texas, tried to get annexed for nine years, but had failed due to it allowing slaves in the state. With new western territories opening up, southerners in particular believed the compromise was holding back their vision of Manifest Destiny.
John O'Sullivan used the phrase "manifest destiny" to argue for his position that the US should expand across North America. He first used the phrase in 1845.
Manifest Destiny influenced Us Expansion since it gave the United State's citizens a goal to work towards. This made us more hostile towards other countries in North America and therefor allowed for us to be able to take up the lands that create the united states in a number of ways. While we did not rid all other influences from North America The United States did gain a lot of territory because of Manifest Destiny.
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it specified the special role that many Americans thought their nation should fulfill.
it specified the special role that many Americans thought their nation should fulfill.
Manifest Destiny never ended! It is always in works. It has majorly slowed down though. The last state to be added to the US was Hawaii. Hawaii was added August 21, 1959. Hope this helped!