US adopted the idea of Manifest destiny to expand our land and spread the idea of democracy and freedom. During the time that Manifest Destiny was in effect‚ the US took over occupied territory‚ gave a weak justification‚ but in the end‚ Americans adopted this policy. The United States almost doubled in size during the period of Manifest Destiny‚ the US did this by taking over controlled land by force‚ and occasionally by treaties. The first blatant example of the westward moving craze was during
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People think of Manifest Destiny as the official policy of territorial expansion and the idea that God had ‘blessed’ America to become an ocean-bound republic in the 19th century. The truth‚ however‚ is that presidents and secretaries of state never really used the phrase ‘manifest destiny’; it was the slogan of the journalist John L. O’Sullivan who created it in 1845 when he was writing editorials about the annexation of Texas and about the boundary dispute with Britain over the Oregon territory
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Westward expansion The California gold rush began 24 January 1848 because James W Marshall found gold in Sutters Mill‚ Coloma. The owner of the mill‚ John Sutter‚ wanted to keep it quiet about the discovery. But rumours spread and it came 300 000 people from the rest of the United States and tens of thousands from Latin America‚ Australia‚ Europe and China. It was not easy to get to California and many people died on the way. The immigrants were later called forty-niners and came to California
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Discuss the motivations from both sides for the Mexican-American war of 1846-1848? Was Manifest Destiny the driving factor or was it something else? The Mexican-American war fought between 1846 and 1848 remains a topic of much contention amongst modern historians. Differing accounts and conclusions of the war are often presented and one must remain pragmatic when analysing both primary and secondary sources regarding the war. There is a clear time line of events that led to the outbreak of
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arguments to justify U.S. territorial expansion. Politicians‚ literary figures‚ educators‚ newspapermen‚ and religious leaders contributed to the whole new idea of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny implied that God gave the Americans the power to move west and spread its protestant religion‚ capitalist economy‚ and democratic-republican political system. The term became known in the summer of 1845 when a newspaper editor‚ John O’Sullivan stated‚ “Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted
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The Anti-Imperialist Perspective and The New Manifest Destiny Senator George F. Hoar opposed the use of blatant force in order to plant our flag in another country; this included the annexation of the Philippines. The Senator did not want our Nation‚ a republic based on freedom‚ to turn into a violent nation using physical force. He is quoted saying "the danger that we are to be transformed from a Republic‚ founded on the Declaration of Independence . . . into a vulgar‚ commonplace empire‚
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The Philosophy that created a Nation Manifest destiny was the Philosophy that created a nation‚ not only was the philosophy right but it made our nation what it thrives to be and what it continues to grow as. The 19th-Century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents. It was a mission in the 1840’s destined by God to spread beliefs throughout the country. The united states not only could‚ but was compelled to span from coast to coast. With the drudgery
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nationalism and westward expansion had merged into the widespread belief in manifest destiny. Proud of their victories and independence‚ many Americans thought of themselves as the forbearers of freedom. Americans took this idea and ran with it‚ making it their new profound slogan. Manifest Destiny asserted that expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable; it not only influenced the idea of expanding land but also the expansion of democratic institutions
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obstacle to the westward expansion. White American settlers petitioned to the federal government to remove the Native Americans. Presidents both Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe argued that Indian tribal lands in the Southeast should sell and/or exchange their land for lands west of the Mississippi River. The American Government did not take any steps to make this happen. In fact‚ the first transfer of land occurred only as an end result of war. The Americans wanted westward expansion to complete their
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In the 1800 brave pioneers moved westward. People moved to the west for a number of reasons there was many Fears‚ Benefits‚ and Hazards of moving west.One of the reasons was they wanted land. If the family worked wanted a piece of land they would have to work there for five years‚ then they could own that piece of land. That one of the biggest reasons that people wanted to move to the west. They had to work hard so that they could have the land all to themselves. Benefit means advantage and in
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