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    California, but in 1836 Texas became independent and tried to be annexed into America. After a few years in 1844 Jame K Polk became president and a year later annexed Texas into America on their manifest destiny. In 1846 America went into a justified war with Mexico because of America’s manifest…

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    of California and the American Southwest through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.” (Haynes) The term manifest destiny was first coined by John L. O’Sullivan, the editor of the United States Magazine. The predetermined notion that American settlers had was Native Americans and Hispanics were inferior and needed…

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    This was first coined by John O Sullivan who stated, “Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.” This was a glamorized platter of ideals the settlers adopted so they wouldn’t have to think too hard about the ethnic cleansing was being committed. To accept something as your destiny means to believe your future was decided for you regardless of your own action. Americans believed…

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    timeline, various cultures have come to the idea of a God or gods and others have looked to either spirits or some other ephemeral entity. But as a race, humans have been greedy, voracious consumers of everything. In the 1800’s, the ideology of “Manifest Destiny” was used to justify the wholesale slaughter of Native Americans and the taking of their land and resources. It was believed that it was the God given right of the settlers and pioneers to take anything that could be taken. When the…

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    Americans and Mexicans. The Mexicans told the Americans if they do not follow the laws they would have to leave Texas. The Americans also had a need to expand their country. That need is called manifest destiny, the Americans loved the idea of expanding their territory. The idea of manifest destiny came from this journalist named John O’Sullivan. There was a President that had views on expanding the United States, he is President James K. Polk. He was interested in purchasing Oregon and…

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    or not? Many Americans used God as an excuse to push inhabitants out of the land Americans wanted. This belief was called “Manifest Destiny”. The benefits of “Manifest Destiny” did not outweigh the negative consequences due to the treatment of the Native Americans, the Mexican American war, and the gold rush. The Americans defended their movement west by the “Manifest Destiny”. As the United States moved west they also moved native inhabitants out of their home out west, making them leave their…

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    To get to were we are today the United States had to expanded on lands that wasn't exactly theirs. This is know as manifest destiny. They bought the land to say it was their that that was not the end of manifest destiny. In the Us during the time 1800 Manifest destiny is greed. Manifest destiny shows greed is when white settlers started hearing about valuables in the land they started to claim it. In the document A soldier recalls the Trail of Tears and it states "In the year 1828, a little…

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    Manifest Destiny is the 19th century idea and belief that it was America’s destiny to spread all the way from the east coast to the west coast. Manifest Destiny, however, was not an objectively good idea. To many, such as Native Americans, Latin American Government Officials, and Northern Abolitionists, the idea was infuriating and seen as unjust, but Americans disregarded these sentiments and kept migrating west. When Andrew Jackson was president, there were about 250,000 Native…

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    Lecture 34: Whose Manifest Destiny? 1. Why should Am.s have regard.exp. to Pac. Coast as “manifest” destiny? The idea of expansionism caused more harm than good. Yes, America gained more territory, but created consequences. Lecture 34 states, “it caused fiction w/Great Brit. over boundaries w/Canada (4).” The idea of manifest destiny was a belief that America’s destiny was to gain more land, especially out west. Manifest destiny only benefited the U.S., but not other countries. America wanted…

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    Manifest Destiny was a movement between the times of 1620 and 1902. It was just the begging of expansionism. There have been many different views of Manifest Destiny; each writer had a different point of view and a different story behind it. Some were opposed to the idea of Manifest Destiny and others were in favor of it, and then there were a hand full who didn’t have a say in anything that went on. For example, the states being annexed. Along with having different points of view, there were…

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