USA HISTORY

MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

MANIFEST DESTINY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
All of the following are political reasons/roots for Manifest Destiny and westward growth except
A
Mormons settling Utah
B
expanding the borders of the counrty
C
spreading democracy across the continent
D
Manifest Destiny
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The desire of southerners to find more lands suitable for cotton cultivation would eventually spread slavery to these regions. North of the Mason-Dixon line, many citizens were deeply concerned about adding any more slave states. Manifest destiny touched on issues of religion, money, race, patriotism, and morality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Manifest Destiny, simply put, was the belief that Americans had the divine right to settle all throughout America, until the Pacific Ocean. This was caused by Americans feeling that it was the will of God that they tame the wilderness and civilize the west, and remake it in the image of the 13 colonies.

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