MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Expanding US territory could expand slavery.
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The US would be greedy to try to take more land from other places.
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Expanding the US could make it too big and the country could fall apart.
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The United States should protect the rights of the Native Americans and stop taking their land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some Americans were opposed to manifest destiny because other nations (Mexico & Great Britain) claimed the land and because they felt an expansive nation would be too large to govern. Abolitionists feared new territory would expand slavery. Only a few hundred Americans resided in the area that is now Texas in 1815.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Why did supporters of Manifest Destiny argue that US expansionism was not imperialism? The United States believed expansion would benefit other countries, not exploit them.