WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Westward expansion was destined to fail
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The U.S. was destined to be independent from England
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The Dawes Act was unconstitutional
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The U.S. was destined to stretch from coast to coast
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Detailed explanation-1: -Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined-by God, its advocates believed-to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The term Manifest Destiny was first used in 1845 by John L. O’Sullivan, editor of the United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, in an essay on why the United States was justified in annexing Texas. He was protesting European, specifically French and British, intervention in the United States’ affairs.
Detailed explanation-4: -This era, from the War of 1812 to the acquisition of Alaska in 1867, has been called the “age of manifest destiny". During this time, the United States expanded to the Pacific Ocean-"from sea to shining sea"-largely defining the borders of the continental United States as they are today.