Manifest Destiny Ideology

For the emerging United States nation, Manifest Destiny was appealing and inevitable because owning more lands would make them invulnerable and powerful. However, this was not the opinion of everyone. Some, like the Whig party, believed that it would make the country unmanageable. In the end, the expansionists won. Moreover, the latter group argued that the ever-expanding population called for the conquering of other territories. For Americans, the ideology was popular to the extent that they saw it as natural and common sense. It was a self-serving view that was economically beneficial to them. For instance, many of them including the creator of the term Louis O’ Sullivan owned lands in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America. Continued