How Did African Americans Contribute To Manifest Destiny

The motivation to desire more has existed within American politics for decades. The Manifest Destiny proved exactly this, by the desire to want more land. This dream took over the hearts of expansionists in the west, which ultimately lead to conflict in the political climate, which spreaded into Mexico as well because of the ability to expand on territory.
The vision of the Manifest Destiny was inspired about by John O'Sullivan. The expansionist was hungry for control of more territory. O’Sullivan argued, ‘our Manifest Destiny”(346). This means America was destined to manifest into something larger than who we are. It is interesting that the Manifest Destiny was not a specific policy of the United States government but rather some kind of belief or notion that white Americans had a ‘divine right’ to overtake large swats of western territories so they could could and exert their influence and values throughout these regions. You can say they were on a mission.
The Manifest Destiny had beliefs rooted against native Americans as well. The Manifest Destiny belief to obtain land influence leaders that there was no room for Native Americans to exist, all that was welcome was the expansion and white man's democracy (346). The vision created a realm of racism against Native Americans, because those who supported the destiny were
This caused an unstable equilibrium with political parties. Two of those leaders who strongly supported the Annexation of Texas and slavery was James K. Polk and James Tyler. Opponents of Slavery viewed Tylers “unscrupulous nature of proslavery forces.”(354) They feared the annexation would spread slavery into the west if the United States gained territory. The texas annexation essentially caused an uproar in the political atmosphere, as it “revived sectional tensions over slavery and westward expansion”(O'Donnell, Edward and Cornell