WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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To provoke a border war with both Mexico and Spain
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To limit the influence of Great Britain in North America
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To acquire sea ports with access to Asian shipping lanes
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to balance the representation from slavery and free states
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Detailed explanation-1: -The idea of manifest destiny-that the United States was destined to occupy the entire North American Hemisphere-came of age in the 1840s. It began with the annexation of Texas, which led to the Mexican-American War and the resulting great land cession.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some Americans opposed the annexation of Texas because of its implications for the balance of power between free states and slave states in the United States Congress. Starting at least in the 1820s, the issue of slavery increasingly important in American politics.
Detailed explanation-3: -Young Democrats constructed Manifest Destiny as an ideology by equating nationalism with freedom and democracy while linking both to regeneration through territorial expansion.