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MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

MANIFEST DESTINY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Read the selection from the section of “Impact of Manifest Destiny.” However, it came with a high price for those who stood in its way. It left thousands of Americans and Mexicans dead in the war. Many Native American nations and Hispanic landowners were treated brutally. They were driven from their lands by white settlers backed by U.S. soldiers.What is the meaning of the phrase “high price” as it is used in this selection?
A
simple answers
B
quick and happy sale
C
profit from a cash deal
D
large amount of suffering
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The ideology of Manifest Destiny inspired a variety of measures designed to remove or destroy the native population. US President James K. Polk (1845-1849) is the leader most associated with Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny inflamed sectional tensions over slavery, which ultimately led to the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-2: -Manifest Destiny was a popular belief in the mid-to-late 19th century. Its proponents claimed that the United States had the divine right to expand westward-meaning that U.S. expansion was the will of God.

Detailed explanation-3: -The self-serving concept of manifest destiny, the belief that the expansion of the United States was divinely ordained, justifiable, and inevitable, was used to rationalize the removal of American Indians from their native homelands.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: Manifest Destiny had a terribly destructive impact on Native Americans. As white settlers moved westward across the North American continent, they displaced Native Americans from their land and destroyed their traditional ways of life.

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