WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Question
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American citizens should have the right to farm in the western U.S
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American women should be able to own their own property.
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America should extend from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean.
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All Native Americans should live west of the Mississippi River.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Manifest Destiny was the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America. The ideology of Manifest Destiny inspired a variety of measures designed to remove or destroy the native population.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Which statement best describes the concept of Manifest Destiny as it was understood in the nineteenth century? Americans had a divine obligation to spread their culture westward.
Detailed explanation-4: -Many tribes were forcibly removed from their lands, in particular the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole. This series of forced migrations became known as the Trail of Tears.