MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Question
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Northern expansion led to a proposal for Canadian annexation.
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Westward expansion led to war with Russia over the Oregon Territory.
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Southern expansion led to the acquisition of colonies in Latin America.
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Westward expansion led to territorial issues and the Mexican-American War.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The philosophy drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion and was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans and other groups from their homes. The rapid expansion of the United States intensified the issue of slavery as new states were added to the Union, leading to the outbreak of the Civil War.
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: -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.