Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion

The Mexican-American War.

The United States has a God-given right to occupy all of North America. The United States has more of a right to rule the West than the native peoples.

The dream of America expanding "from sea to shining sea".

It is fated that the United States possess and occupy the entire continent of North America

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In French a "coigne" is a die used to stamp out money.

Increased migration into the Western territories fueled the idea of manifest destiny. In the 1840s, the US annexed Texas, settled a territorial dispute with Britain over Oregon Country, and obtained California and New Mexico from Mexico.

It shows you how when belief of manifest destiny which is the belief that America could spared across the country

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It permitted American settlement on Indian land.

Population growth

Since Manifest Destiny is the expansion of the U.S A LOT of people were involved. Basically everyone that moved to America during the Lewis and Clark time. I can't give you an exact number but it is a lot!!

The manifest destiny was the United States should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This was realized during the Polk administration when the US annexed California and the Mexican territory in between.

it meant 'get the hell out of the way', because Americans were now seizing what they saw as their 'rightful' land.

National interest can be persued through power, coercive measure and diplomacy.

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.

The social roots of manifest destiny can be condensed into a perceived belief by Anglo-Saxon immigrants that their expulsion of British authority and economic success were a sign from a higher power that all of the "Americas" were to be used for the benefit of the "white" man. This led to a combined disregard for most other races of immigrants and the Native Americans that needed to be exterminated to ensure the United States expansion to the Pacific Ocean.

It encouraged the pioneers to settle farther west and south.

Americans harbored a belief of racial superiority and cultural superiority. Americans believed they had a â??divine obligationâ?? to stretch the borders of the country to the Pacific. The â??Everyone is equalâ?? mantra of the Jackson administration made Americans eager to tackle the challenge of settling the western provinces.

O'Sullivan used the term Manifest Destiny in advocating for the US to annex Texas and the Oregon Country, which were not part of the USA at the time. John O'Sullivan wrote about Manifest Destiny starting in 1845.

Manifest Destiny is a term summarizing the belief that it was the clear and obvious intention of God that the United States should extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This view sometimes included from the Gulf of Mexico to the arctic, thus including incorporation of Canada and at least portions of Mexico and even Cuba.

Americans had a God-given right to expand their superior civilization to new territory

Manifest Destiny was the belief that God wanted Americans to inhabit the continent, from California to the Eastern Seaboard. This didn't include Canada, which at that time was British land.

American justification for American westward expansion.

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.

Texas- (annexed by congress in 1845

Oregon- (treaty with great Britain in 1846)

California/Southwest (gadsden purchase)

Arizona/ New Mexico

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