MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Mexico had the right to claim California
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the United States had the right to claim new lands
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people who owned land in California were allowed to keep it
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American Indians would receive land grants from the government
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Detailed explanation-1: -The ideology that became known as Manifest Destiny included a belief in the inherent superiority of white Americans, as well as the conviction that they were destined by God to conquer the territories of North America, from sea to shining sea.
Detailed explanation-2: -People who believed in Manifest Destiny were known as Expansionists. Expansionists believed the United States should expand its borders until it had claimed all of the land between the two oceans, which we now think of as the continental United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -The philosophy describing the necessary expansion of the nation westward was called Manifest Destiny; the belief that it was our duty to settle the continent, conquer and prosper.
Detailed explanation-4: -Expansion westward seemed perfectly natural to many Americans in the mid-nineteenth century. Like the Massachusetts Puritans who hoped to build a “city upon a hill, “courageous pioneers believed that America had a divine obligation to stretch the boundaries of their noble republic to the Pacific Ocean.
Detailed explanation-5: -The phrase “manifest destiny” is most often associated with the territorial expansion of the United States from 1812 to 1867. This era, from the War of 1812 to the acquisition of Alaska in 1867, has been called the “age of manifest destiny".