Manifest Destiny

HOW DID THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT TRANSFORM AMERICA? American Westward Movement is the process that people from the settled regions of the United States to lands farther west. The great west means stretching from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and it was subdivided into two sections: the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast. This westward movement, across what was often called the American frontier, was of enormous…

I agree with Nathaniel Philbrick that America in the nineteenth century became “relentlessly acquisitive”, “technologically advanced”, and had a “religious sense of its own destiny”. Development of America’s culture, society, and economy in the early nineteenth century advanced greatly compared to previous years. The market revolution and westward movement both helped to shape these characteristics in the nineteenth century. The early nineteenth century America was growing and headed towards…

The frontier holds a special place in the hearts and minds of Americans; as Turner characterize it, “the vision of America as a frontier nation”, the frontier is the line of most rapid and effective Americanization element in the American history; the meeting point between savagery and civilization. The frontier was the wilderness just outside the civilized towns, which subsequently offered people an opportunity to strike out and succeed on their own. As put by Crevecoeur in his…

President Thomas Jefferson had an idea of expansion and once he convinced congress to allow him to send explores out west he did just that. Lewis and Clark headed the expedition that would lead them from the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean. They played a vital role in the growth of Young America because of this expedition. America had many needs during the time of Lewis and Clarks expedition. The reason why Lewis and Clark went on this expedition not only because President Jefferson…

“Be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be,” William Clark once stated during an expedition that explored the Western part of the United States in the early 1800’s. The white people’s viewpoint, that the Corps of Discovery expedition was important for America’s expansion westward, is more accurate because the expedition brought different groups of people…

Western Expansion DBQ After the United States doubled its territory due to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, American citizens were encouraged to go westward by the government. To urge its citizens to go westward, the United States’ government even promised to give out land for free. Hearing the news that land were to be given for free in the West, thousands of people hopped onto their wagons and started to go westward hoping to seek opportunities to change their lives. However, these people had…

Therefore, President Polk intentionally released troops to Texas, Ulysses S. Grant's statement on the conflict, and the biased treaty made by the U.S. so they could take most of the land demonstrates the unjust nature of Manifest Destiny. Another reason why Manifest Destiny can be seen as an unjust expansion is because of the Trail of Tears. For instance, the Cherokee nation, along with other tribes such as the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole, were forcibly removed from their ancestral…

opportunity of freedom and to become rich. This ideas lead to what's called Manifest Destiny. During the 19th century Americans belief was that God wanted them to expand west, they thought that it was god given right to expand and this would bring them freedom to other parts. However expanding America had many difficulties and catalysts and this enable to fulfill the belief of manifest destiny. Slavery in the manifest destiny was surely major key role because not only it was a catalyst, but a…

ownership. These are things that history has taught us. More specifically this applies directly to expansionism during the period of manifest destiny. America’s hunger for power supplied through land possession led to various instances in which expansionism empowered or excluded. Manifest Destiny was an ideology used to empower the growing country of America. Manifest Destiny was the popular idea that America was destined to expand westward and spread their influence to the western areas. This…

the 1830s, the American people populated a third of the North American continent, but alas it was still not enough. A nationalistic belief coined by John Sullivan as Manifest Destiny revived American interest in westward expansion under the pretense that the United States was predestined for continental domination. Manifest Destiny painted westward expansion as an opportunity to spread American democracy to lands still wretched with tyranny, while carving out greater living space for the…