Manifest Destiny is what the mindset of the American people where in the 19th century, where in they believed in the expansion of American territory from coast to coast and that time, to the West. Although even as the early 1800s, Andrew Jackson led an army of men during the Florida crisis and conquered forts and cities. He also punished Indians who supported Spanish troops. The expansion was not only focused on territory but also to achieve freedom and economic stability for the people.There was territorial expansion.It was good for trade and industry.As it doubled the land area of the U.S., it also increased goods, services and wealth.It paved the way for Americans to share their culture.It offered the chance for exploration. It was unconstitutional.
Manifest destiny was the belief that was created by John L. O'sullivan in the 1840. Manifest destiny consisted of three steps, the creation of manifest Destiny, the process of achieving manifest Destiny, and finally achieving Manifest Destiny. These are the three subjects that will be talked about in this article. Like I said in the previous Paragraph it was created by John L. O’sullivan when he wrote it in his article on Texas annexation and the dispute over the British Oregon trails. There were several diffrent way people used the word Manifest Destiny like the way John L. O'sullivan used it was he believed that “ majority of Americans at the time believed was their mission from God: to expand to west and bring the United States government to unenlightened people.”
The concept of starting the Manifest Destiny was to expand their land and gain territory for their people. This proposal came from John Quincy Adams during the 1819 who wanted to lengthened the land to the pacific ocean to the Westward expansion but, it wasn’t until John O' Sullivan a newspaper editor published it during the 1940's had proclaimed it officially, giving it the name of the "Manifest Destiny." In the beginning two people went to explore the recently new land from the Louisiana Purchase. After two years, the Lewis and Clark Expedition was quite successful, they had found the pacific ocean. It was then later they decided to expand The Manifest Destiny was successful in gaining land but the consequences
Manifest Destiny is the belief of the nineteenth century that America was destined by God to expand westward. The author of Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis believed that God established Anglo-Saxons as the superior people whose purpose was to spread Christianity. (Doc B) This idea of spreading a superior culture or religion has been a motive for expansion for decades before this. Despite this support for expansionism, there were those who were against it.
The expansion of the railroad developed a stronger united nation. Positive to the expanding of the U.S. territory was that over-populated cities in the north would become less populated as people would soon start leaving to own their own land in the west. The west then became established with settlers and immigrants moving in. Another positive to the U.S. expanding their territories was that the Pacific Ocean was a new source of income to people living or traveling to the west coast. The U.S. soon had docks and trading posts for people wanting to trade from other countries.
The Manifest Destiny was a belief that the United States’ fate was to reach from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean (Document A). At the point in time when it was created, America was in fact not that large yet. Manifest Destiny created perseverance throughout all of America and Americans did all in their power to retrieve the land that touched the Pacific (Document C). We basically turned into bullies just to salvage a most likely fake belief. Even though the United States did go to war with Mexico and Europe for most of the land: Native Americans suffered the most.
This allowed immigrants who were looking for better lives a broad access into different parts of the US. They could settle down permanently without having to worry about long distance journeys taking days upon weeks just to reach their destination point safely ultimately creating a more unified nation overall. It created in tons of jobs for the immagrants across the
In this set of materials, both the reading and the listening passages are talking about Manifest Destiny, which is vital political issue in 1844. While the reading mentioning about the history of the Oregon Territory as becoming a part of James Polk’s platform, the listening adds new points to the points made by the reading by talking about voters to this changement. To start with, according to the author, America speedily enlarged its territory by admission of Texas to its Union as the 28th state. However, the lecturer argues that the voters were not eligible to vote for it.
Manifest Destiny was the belief that many Americans held, that the United States was destined to someday hold land “from sea to shining sea”. Emigrants came to the new world seeking their own land and freedom. For some it was freedom for religion, and for others freedom from the feudal system of Europe. With seeming unlimited land for the taking, anyone could be a lord of the new world.
During the 1840s, the number of Americans ventured west into Texas, Oregon, and California increased. The states consumed the sense that the destiny was to authorized a nation that can comprised both coasts. President Andrew Jackson had attacked to buy California for $3.5 million in the year of 1835; however, Mexico had rejected the offered from Jackson. The word “Manifest Destiny” means in the 19th century concept that the expansion of the United State throughout the American continents was both justified and inexorable. “Manifest Destiny” was used in the mid of 1840s, yet I believed I can still see evidence of attitude even before the phrase was used.
Manifest Destiny was a phrase used by politicians and leaders in the United States in the 1840s to justify and promote territorial expansion across the North American continent by providing a sense of mission to citizens. It promoted this sense of mission by fomenting a desire to establish a large empire-like nation in which the ideals of democracy, freedom, and progress are ostensibly protected and promoted. It strongly characterized U.S. internal and external policies and has continued to do so to this day. In theory, one aspect of this desire was its principle to bring the ideals of democratic self-government to any peoples capable of it; in practice, however, this often meant excluding Native Americans and those with non-European ancestry.
It provided the US with new farmland and it doubled the size of their nation. It expanded the nation throughout the west. It also strengthened the country in many ways. Like for wars/battles and more room for materials. It also supplied America with many natural resources.
Manifest Destiny is a unique, yet mysterious fundamental series of events in American history. No other country’s history contains such an eventful history as the United States. Amy Greenberg’s book, Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion, provides documented evidence that settlers believed they were destined for expansion throughout the continent. In other words, many religious settlers believed that it was a call from God for the United States to expand west. On the other hand, people believed that Manifest Destiny vindicated the war against Mexico.
“Once we became an independent people it was as much a law of nature that this [control of all of North America] should become our pretension as that the Mississippi should flow to the sea” –John Quincy Adams (Henretta, p. 384). In the 1840s, Americans had a belief that God destined for them to expand their territory all the way westward to the Pacific Ocean. This idea was called Manifest Destiny. In the nineteenth century, Americans were recognized for coming together and building up one another for one cause: westward expansion.
In the 19th Century, there were strong supporters of the ideology of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was basically the belief of expansion by settlers expanding all over America because god supposedly destined the Americans for expansions by their resources. This resulted for the Americans to find a modern mode of transportation that would make traveling from the east to the west coast easier. This resulted in a mega construction known as the Transcontinental Railroad. The railroad not only helps with transportation but with trading.
Manifest Destiny was the term used by John O’Sullivan to describe America’s desire to expand West due to reasons including both the vast amount of unclaimed land and the opportunities Americans wanted to explore. During this time, Americans believed that it was their God-given right to expand West, and therefore they were entitled to push away any groups that were in their way. Due to the mindset that the Americans could do as they pleased with the groups of people who got in their way, Manifest Destiny affected many groups of people, including the American Indians and Slaves, and continued to build up the preexisting tension between the North and South. One of the groups of people affected greatly by Manifest Destiny were the Native Americans. Manifest Destiny affected the American Indians by spreading foreign diseases to them as they moved Westward, through the Native American territory.