Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny is a historic duty, in the 1800’s the Americans believed that the manifest destiny of the United States was to expand to the pacific ocean. The United States started as costal colonies but eventually the fulfilled their manifest destiny and expanded buy conquering and purchasing land. The Americans gained more land by buying it from France in the Louisiana Purchase and they also acquired land by cession as they did in the Mexican Cession. Other ways of expanded their land was to take it by force, many settlers killed the Indians and stole their land from them.

The Americans in the 1800’s believed that it was the historic duty of their nation to expand to the pacific ocean. They believed that the land was rightfully theirs. They ignored the fact that the land was already occupied and began to move west. They did not recognize the Indians as people, they saw them as potential slaves, so they simply killed them and took their land. Much of the land was bought ...