MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM
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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: -The Mexican-American War was the first major conflict driven by the idea of “Manifest Destiny"; the belief that America had a God-given right, or destiny, to expand the country’s borders from ‘sea to shining sea’.
Detailed explanation-3: -Manifest Destiny was the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America. The ideology of Manifest Destiny inspired a variety of measures designed to remove or destroy the native population. US President James K.