USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Whig Party Politics The rather complex issue of Manifest Destiny caused strife within the Whig Party, which was mostly anti-slavery and worried expansion would extend slavery into those areas. They preferred to concentrate on the industrial growth within the boundaries the country already had issues governing.

Detailed explanation-3: -The tribes forcibly removed during this time were the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole. The phrase “Trail of Tears” originated from an 1838 description of the Choctaw nation removal, in which one Choctaw chief told a newspaper that the forced migration was a “trail of tears and death.”