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Manifest Destiny caused the American people to expand the nation westward.

During the War of 1812, the emerging United States served notice to their former European masters that they had no rights to control colonies in the Western hemisphere. It then became manifest that their destiny was to rule "from sea to shining sea."

Given that belief, (although the term itself was not yet in use) the US attacked its neighbour, with the intent of forcibly annexing Canada. British troops. natives, and Canadian militia inflicted serious losses on the invasion forces, which retreated back across the border, surrendering Detroit, Buffalo, and Fort Dearborn (Chicago).

The British went on the offensive, taking Washington and burning the White House. However, at no time did they attempt to retake the United States. In fact, weary of war after defeating Napoleon, the British rather generously turned back all the American territory it had conquered and signed the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war.

Ironically, the American invasion, (the second since an American army attacked Canada in 1775), and that notion of Manifest Destiny, brought English and French speaking Canadians together, and began talk of nationhood, which began a reality in 1867, eventually making Canada the biggest country on the continent.

The Expansionists supposedly believed in Manifest Destiny. This was a publicity campaign, propaganda if you will, for people to travel and settle the largely vacant interior and west of the newly enlarged US.

It grew respect with Mexico because they knew that they could not beet the Americans

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the manifest destiny started around the 1850's :)

Because they helped find new pathes and passes through the Indies.

That America was destined to go from sea to shining sea (a.k.a. Atlantic to Pacific) and thus set out to settle the west of the continent.

Expansion was needed to keep the United States safe from its enemies.

It was positive (if you were part of the U.S.) because it helped the U.S. gain more land. It also caused the Mexicans to move more and more away from the United States

It was used by Democrats in the 1840s to justify the war with Mexico; the concept was denounced by Whigs, and fell into disuse after the mid 1850s.

It took place throughout the US.

Manifest Destiny: The belief that the US should keep expanding to the west.

The government of the United States sold at $1 per acre of land to encourage settlement in the new areas. This happened right after the Revolutionary War.

Move westward at any cost.

The citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean.

The final dispute was between the US and Great Britain, which divided the area in 1846.

Four nations claimed Oregon Country at one time: Spain, Russia, Britain, and the United States. Spain dropped out of America with the Florida Treaty of 1819 and Russia dropped out with the treaties of 1824 and 1825. Britain controlled the portion north of the Columbia River. By 1846, about 5,000 Americans settled south of the Columbia River. The British had a lesser population but it did not want to give up its claims to the Columbia River. The disputed territory in Oregon Country became an issue in the election of 1844.

Manifest destiny led to Texas becoming a part of the United States and lead to a war with Mexico.

False.