MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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The forty-niners headed west to seek their fortunes in gold mining.
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The Mormons settled there to escape religious persecution in the East.
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The Whitmans established a mission there to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
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Pioneers settled there to buy cheap farmland and escape financial panics in the east.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The desire for more land brought aspiring homesteaders to the frontier. When gold was discovered in California in 1848, the number of migrants increased even more. At the heart of manifest destiny was the pervasive belief in American cultural and racial superiority.
Detailed explanation-2: -Weeks noted in 1996 that three key themes were usually touched upon by advocates of manifest destiny: the virtue of the American people and their institutions; the mission to spread these institutions, thereby redeeming and remaking the world in the image of the United States; the destiny under God to do this work.
Detailed explanation-3: -Manifest Destiny was the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America. The ideology of Manifest Destiny inspired a variety of measures designed to remove or destroy the native population.
Detailed explanation-4: -Manifest Destiny-social roots: strong nationalism (pride in country); belief that U.S. was special ("great experiment of liberty"); belief that God supported U.S. expansion.