USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -With its triumph in the Mexican-American War, the United States seemingly realized its Manifest Destiny by gaining an immense domain (more than 525, 000 square miles [1, 360, 000 square km] of land), including present-day Arizona, California, western Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

Detailed explanation-2: -Growth in U.S. economy increased demand for (and value of) farmland, ranches, and furs; the cotton gin increased the area in which cotton could be grown profitably; the discovery of gold in California attracted 80, 000 people in1849. Cheap land so that families could farm for themselves.

Detailed explanation-3: -A summary of Manifest Destiny shows that, operating under this concept, America acquired a great deal of land, including Texas in 1845 and the Oregon Territory in 1846. As a result of the Mexican-American War the U.S. acquired California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming in 1848.