Manifest Destiny was a major time of events that have happened during the 19th century that include moving to the East to the West. Some of the major events that happened during this time were the Gold Rush, Louisiana Purchase, Mexican war (below), Oregon …show more content…
Some people over packed and had to unload and/or aboard their wagons. Some people didn't have enough food for their animals to pull the wagons so they had to jump over board too. Most people ended up walking by the end of the trail. Most people had emotional damage from leaving most of their family behind. Since most people that traveled on the trail were men, most of them had to leave their family and friends behind.
The Louisiana Purchase was when the new United States of America bought a large chunk of the French's land. The French thought that their land was all swamps because most of their people lived in Louisiana where there were lots of swamps and the French thought that it was small and terrible because in Louisiana was full of something that the French hated... Mosquitoes.
The Louisiana Purchase was a very important part in Manifest Destiny. It allowed America to look like what it looks like today. Without the Louisiana Purchase America would be either split in half or just the half on the right. America would be less resourceful because the Gold Rush would not have happened, and we might not be as powerful …show more content…
It was all started when the miners were at California they ran out of food and needed shelter so merchants that traveled there to gain more of a profit or merchants that already lived there had the chance and they took it, and they gained a HUGE profit from this and spread out into major companies around the United States. Another thing that most people don't know is that it was the biggest mass migration in the history of the United States. It had a total 300,000 people move there at the same time. Without this California might be part of Oregon or different