WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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It caused a positive impact, allowing Americans to spread out to address the issue of overcrowding in the east.
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It caused a negative impact, causing the United States to engage in wars with foreign countries.
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It caused a positive impact, creating an environment where the inhabitant of the land learned to live peacefully.
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It caused a negative impact, forcing Native Americans off of lands they previously held claim to.
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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: -In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper editor John O’Sullivan coined the term ‘manifest destiny’ to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific.
Detailed explanation-3: -Manifest Destiny was used to validate the Westward Expansion and the acquisition of Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, and California before the Civil War and was used to justify the removal of Native American people from their land.