Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion

Man people viewed the Manifest Destiny as an excuse to invade territory, and counteract the US' selfishness. It was also viewed as injustice, inequality, and the 'most scandalous violation of the rights of nations.'

settlers

Manifest Destiny, Indian Removal Acts, and the Homestead Act were all ideas and policies that justified westward expansion.

"Obviously since Manifest Destiny was the belief that the USA had the right to control the Americas from Alaska to the Straights of Magellan at the end of South America, the USA did it best to expand where ever it could. It bought the Louisiana Purchase from France. It purchased Florida from Spain. It sized land from Mexico in the Mexican American War. It purchased Alaska from Russia. It invaded and tried to grab Canada on several occasions, and was defeated every time. Native Americans who stood in the way of USA expansion were massacred and the survivors forced onto reservations."

white men -novanet

That we got more land. Since we got more land, we have been greedy and just trying to get more and more. Americans want to be he best, but were not. Were in over our heads in debt. We have over 500,000 dollars to repay people for our mistakes. I we didn't get that land, we wouldn't be greedy and we would be happy with what we have. I hope this helps :)

It made transportation faster, making traveling easier.

Since traveling by wagon is a hard thing to do, railroads and trains are much easier. And because it's easy, people are more encouraged to go.

The colonists didn't really care about the Native Americans that were inhabiting the lands they wanted to conquer. They thought the natives were inferior to them, and that the pioneers deserved the land.

People decided to settle west to the Pacific Ocean and south to Mexico.

The native Americans were affected in 5 ways. They lost land, their buffalo supply were soon depleted by over hunting, they were forced west on the Trail of Tears, diseases were spread by the 'White Men," and many were beaten to death for no reason at all by soldiers sent to "protect" them.

Expansionists of the 1840s, mainly Democrats, championed the idea of a US that stretched from Atlantic to Pacific across the continent. Political influence in this regard led to the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The only resistance to Manifest Destiny came from Whigs such as Abraham Lincoln, who wished to consolidate the national economy. Also, of course, the native tribes whose lands were rapidly overrun in the move to settle the West.

The United States was unique in the world as a democracy of people from many different nations.

Yes and No. Manifest Destiny states that the US Citizens should own all of the land in North America during the early years of the United States. The US Government now controls most of North America, so that would be a "No". However, some extremists believe that the USA should control all of the land in that the eye can see (with satellite technology, that would be the whole planet). That would be a "Yes". In reality, Manifest Destiny is a severely outdated concept and should not be applied to the current state of affairs. That would mean that "No" would be a more sensible answer.

It was the belief that colonists could, and should, migrate west-- no matter what stood in their way. There is a group of modern scholars who assert that "manifest destiny" could be considered ethnocentric or even racist, since it often involved the belief by white, Christian colonists that their culture and religion were superior, and that they had a divinely given right to take over new lands and make them part of the United States, even if those lands were populated by the darker-skinned people then called "Indians." But other scholars accept "manifest destiny" as a sincere effort to explore new territories in the west and expand the country.

People traveled West during Manifest Destiny to settle the previously unknown areas of the country. It was the goal of the President Andrew Jackson to expand the freedoms known to the states on the East Coast throughout the rest of the nation.

People in the United States believed that the country should be bigger.

The Mexican-American war, warfare with native Americans and I forgot what else

whether slavery would spread across the United States

Since "Manifest Destiny" was the belief that the U.S. was ordained by God to spread to the Pacific Ocean, the annexation of Mexican territory is the best answer here. The other issues deal with slavery or slavery in the territories of the United States.

James K. Polk (term: 1845-1849) qualifies as such.

Polk

Actually there were several different presidents during the time period of the Manifest Destiny. I am not sure who they are, but I don no that James K. Polk was one of them

John O'Sullivan. John O'Sullivan used the word manifestto mean clear or obvious. The word destiny means events sure to happen. Therefore, manifest destiny was the belief that our country's [U.S.A.] destiny was to expand our boundaries from "sea to shining sea" [Atlantic to Pacific Ocean]; a task believed to be given by God himself to the Americans.

Support westward expansion to the Pacific.

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.

People believed that the United States was meant to grow in size.