USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

THE TRAIL OF TEARS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
A
Socialism
B
Manifest Destiny
C
Democracy
D
Communism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Manifest Destiny: the nineteenth-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

Detailed explanation-2: -Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined-by God, its advocates believed-to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.

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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Manifest destiny had serious consequences for Native Americans, since continental expansion implicitly meant the occupation and annexation of Native American land, sometimes to expand slavery. This ultimately led to confrontations and wars with several groups of native peoples via Indian removal.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer and Explanation: Americans justified westward expansion through the ideology of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was a term coined in the mid-1840s. It claimed that the United States was providentially designed to spread across the continent.

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