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Manifest Destiny: A God Given Right Or Wrong? - Paper

Manifest Destiny: A God Given Right Or Wrong?

Colin Lenahan
Period 5
1/14/09

Manifest Destiny: A God Given Right Or Wrong?

In 19th century America, a term came into use to describe the expansion and movement of Americans across our continent. The term was �Manifest Destiny�, this was the social theory or belief that U.S.A. and its population of predominately white and Christian citizens were chosen personally by God, to divinely expand across the country, and they did, �expansionists aspirations also included a geographical element marked by the perceived, God given, natural right of Americans to expand the nation�(Caldwell, 91). Despite the fact that there were preexisting landowners to the lands they settled so divinely in ...

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directed to lands inhabited by Indians and Mexicans, this brought upon some dark time in our nations past. After the annexation of Texas to the Union, all diplomatic ties between the U.S. And Mexico were abandoned(McGeehan, 2). But with war, comes land. In it's height of popularity, Manifest Destiny brought onto our plate the Mexican-America War, �tensions with Mexico coincided with America's quest for expansion�(McGeehan, 1). With America's territory hungry instinct's and that of it's high command, we drove into war in 1846. Dispute over land and border's between Mexico and the United States was a pushing factor towards war.�When rumors of Mexican invasion caught the capitals attention�(McGeehan, 2), 3,500 troops sent by President Polk were sent to the Rio Grande to defend Texas and met with Mexicans, a few of the troops were killed and war was declared, in this border dispute Mexico made the mistake of firing the first shots. After two years of fighting and bloodshed upon the ...

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Added: 4/14/2011 07:12:23 PM
Submitted By: liquidatedbrainz
Category: American History
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 906
Pages: 4

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