MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Question
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President Polk was responsible for fulfilling the dream of western expansion.
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Most of all, in just four years Polk’s commitment to westward expansion forever reshaped the United States. The United States acquired more than a million square miles of western territory and extended its boundary to the Pacific Ocean under President Polk’s presidency.
Detailed explanation-2: -More than any other President, Polk pursued “Manifest Destiny, ” a phrase coined by his fellow Jacksonian Democrat, John L. O’Sullivan, to express the conviction that Providence had foreordained the United States to spread its republican institutions across North America.
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