JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Many settlers moved west to start a new life.
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Many farmers switched from food crops to cash crops
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Many businesses expanded and added new employees
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Many women demanded equality and the right to vote
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Detailed explanation-1: -The philosophy drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion and was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans and other groups from their homes. The rapid expansion of the United States intensified the issue of slavery as new states were added to the Union, leading to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -The idea of Manifest Destiny arose in response to the prospect of U.S. annexation of Texas and to a dispute with Britain over the Oregon Country, which became part of the union.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper editor John O’Sullivan coined the term ‘manifest destiny’ to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific.