John O'sullivan's Theory Of Manifest Destiny

John O’Sullivan, a New York journalist, is known to be the founder of the idea of Manifest Destiny, or the idea that the United States was destined to conquer the land given by God. Ever since the summer of 1845, when O’Sullivan had first published the idea, most of the American population was hooked on further expansion. Because the majority of the US population was in favor of Manifest Destiny when the US was given the option of annexing, or accepting, Texas the US accepted. While this acceptance of a new state expanded the borders of the United States, it also bred conflict with Mexico. Mexico was was angry with the USA for annexing Texas, but as suspicion and conflict grew Mexico started to act impulsively. This combined with Mexico’s spotty ruling created
In 1835 Mexican dictator Santa-Anna, already on his rise to power abolished the old constitution in favor of his document “The Seven Laws.” This shows that Santa-Anna was gaining enough power to eliminate major political documents. This also shows that Santa-Anna could quickly gain power. Santa-Anna was not received well by the Mexican people. He was so disliked that many small nations broke out of Mexico in the time of his rule. This dividing of Mexico proves that Santa-Anna was oppressing the Mexican people. One of these Small nations was Texas. Santa-Anna stormed into Texas with his troops, and was merciless to the Texans and Tejanos. This treatment of these people proved to be a security issue for both Mexico and the United States. Santa-Anna was only driven by his own ruthless and violent, and that sort of behavior is problematic for homeland and International security. In September of 1847 Santa-Anna decided to resign as Mexican president. While Santa-Anna left office his old policies did not, so the same danger of Santa-Anna in office was for the next president, causing there to still be security issues for both the US and