Manifest Destiny
which of the following was not a characteristics of the united states during the early 1840s
in 1830s and 1840s
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Pioneers mostly used animals as their main means of travel on the Oregon Trail. They stopped to rest at Fort Walla Walla in the 1840s.
1840s
Manifest Destiny.
The 1840s. The term "Manifest Destiny" was coined by John L. O'Sullivan in a newspaper editorial in 1845, but America's expansion to the west was sparked by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.After the War of 1812
the acquiring of new territories
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny was the idea of America expanding and moving west. people wanted to move west for cheaper land. Thanks Jannie =)
John L. O'Sullivan, editor of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, coined the phrase "manifest destiny" in 1845.
Support westward expansion to the Pacific.
they say it started in the 1840s
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.
Manifest Destiny was a belief in the 1830s and 1840s that the "divine right" of the US was to expand westward toward the Pacific Ocean and conquer the entire continent (unoccupied except by the native tribes). This, of course, actually occurred, at least partly as a result of political pressure to follow this assumption.It was used by people who claimed it was "God's will" for the U.S to expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean. (Manifest destiny meaning obvious fate.)