Oregon Country

apply the human rights to the people in the foreign lands. Others criticized the act of hypocrisy America was in. The United States knew what it was to fight for the liberation of its people, but still it wanted to do the same thing to less-develop countries. The anti-expansionists saw the contradiction of America’s actions. It wanted to help the world by bringing democracy and freedom to its people, but when dealing with the Philippines for example, it fought a bloody war denying them with the…

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…

Courtney White’s article “Westward Ho!” explores manifest destiny, the concept of American exceptionalism, and being a part of the “latter-day pioneers” (White 1). “Manifest destiny was a phrase employed energetically in the mid-19th century by a variety of politicians, journalists, and economic boosters to express the general belief that the United States had an unstoppable destiny to expand from sea to shining sea in accordance with God’s manifest will” (White 1). White also speaks of his…

Stephanson looks at the Protestant Reformation and the simultaneous colonization of new lands by European countries as the foundation where the term started before it was coined as manifest destiny. The Puritans in America were the Protestants who arose from the Church of England and they viewed the New World as a unique mission and project to spread their beliefs…

1800s and 1850s believed in Manifest Destiny. During Westward Expansion vast amounts of land was open the further west the Americans traveled no one knew where it ended. Americans had fought hard for America and were not going to give up on their country. Expanding west was no doubt America's fate. The growing population and technological innovations made it the perfect time to explore. Also, their easy victory against Mexico and the Native Americans proved it was predestination to move and…

and used it to acquire all land, from coast to coast. Manifest density is the believe or ideal that America was destined to expand to all the land between the two coasts. This drove the American people to fight for land and to take it from other countries. The Mexican-American War started with the American President, James K. Polk using manifest destiny to obtain a declaration of war from the Congress to go at war with Mexico. An example of an imperialist war is the Mexican-American war because…

Westward expansion or Manifest destiny was the belief that the United States was destined to own the land from modern day Maine to California and everything in between. In the mid-1800’s this attitude caused more than a few problems with Mexico it caused a war. The Mexican-American war was a two year long war over territory and “shedding American blood upon the American soil.” One characteristic of a justified war is having clear, good intentions. Was the Mexican-American war a just war? The…

Destiny as being an excuse for the U.S. to commit sinful acts, while at the same time denouncing it as very dangerous. Many used the constitution to express their concerns, stating that the Constitution does not give the country the right to inquire new lands. They believed the country was spreading itself too thin and would end up very vulnerable against other nations. Many abolitionists where against Manifest Destiny because they saw it as a possibility for the South to spread slavery; which…

There are different interpretation about manifest destiny today, many people define Manifest Destiny was a 19th century doctrine that the united states had the right and duty to expand through out the North American Territory. John O'sullivan defined manifest destiny as the divine and God given right of the American people to expand through the lands. I'll be defining Manifest destiny differently, Manifest destiny to me was/is the greedy want for resources, economical wealth, and land which…

Oregon Trail Introduction: During the 19th century, America started territorial expansion，which evolved the South Oregon area where The United Stated brought from Napoleon. Thus, during these periods, the process of expanding provided a lot of new opportunities for the mass who lived in east to obtain totally new life. Then, Oregon Trail, a key of that expansion was created and named by later generations. Oregon Trail is a legend of American, but it is the truth story. At that time, people…