USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -People who supported manifest destiny generally believed the American way of life was superior to all others. In the 1840s, most Americans thought it would be greedy to expand across the whole continent. Mexico gave up a large part of its territory to the U.S.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ideology that became known as Manifest Destiny included a belief in the inherent superiority of white Americans, as well as the conviction that they were destined by God to conquer the territories of North America, from sea to shining sea.

Detailed explanation-3: -People who believed in Manifest Destiny were known as Expansionists. Expansionists believed the United States should expand its borders until it had claimed all of the land between the two oceans, which we now think of as the continental United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Other historians have emphasized that “manifest destiny” was always contested; many endorsed the idea, but the large majority of Whigs and many prominent Americans (such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant) rejected the concept.