Manifest Destiny Research Paper
Tara Hickman
Mr. Sandstrom
American History
Manifest Destiny and Division
Manifest Destiny was the rationalization for the Americans to satiate their hunger for greater power and control over the land from coast to coast. As America grew the differences in things such as economy, views of slavery, and overall ways of life between the North and South also grew and created division within the nation.
John O’Sullivan was the first person to use the term Manifest Destiny, the first time was to argue about the annexation of Texas and the second, when the term actually caught on, referred to the dispute about the border of Oregon Country with the British. The piece where he mentions Manifest Destiny, referring to Oregon Country, was in the New York Moring News on December 27, 1845. It is as follows, “And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.”
People have inferred according to this part of the column Manifest Destiny was a pre-ordained right by the power of God for people of the United States to claim the all of the continent from coast to coast. Others …show more content…
Technology included the new telegraph lines that made communication easier and more efficient. Transportation included the length of railroad lines extended from the North to the new land in the west, but the main example of the increasing the railroad line was the Transcontinental Railroad that cut through the Midwest. Demand for cash crops, which were produced in the South, grew so the farmers needed more land to meet these needs. An endless supply of rich and plentiful land, perfect for farming, was discovered in the west
Mr. Sandstrom
American History
Manifest Destiny and Division
Manifest Destiny was the rationalization for the Americans to satiate their hunger for greater power and control over the land from coast to coast. As America grew the differences in things such as economy, views of slavery, and overall ways of life between the North and South also grew and created division within the nation.
John O’Sullivan was the first person to use the term Manifest Destiny, the first time was to argue about the annexation of Texas and the second, when the term actually caught on, referred to the dispute about the border of Oregon Country with the British. The piece where he mentions Manifest Destiny, referring to Oregon Country, was in the New York Moring News on December 27, 1845. It is as follows, “And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.”
People have inferred according to this part of the column Manifest Destiny was a pre-ordained right by the power of God for people of the United States to claim the all of the continent from coast to coast. Others …show more content…
Technology included the new telegraph lines that made communication easier and more efficient. Transportation included the length of railroad lines extended from the North to the new land in the west, but the main example of the increasing the railroad line was the Transcontinental Railroad that cut through the Midwest. Demand for cash crops, which were produced in the South, grew so the farmers needed more land to meet these needs. An endless supply of rich and plentiful land, perfect for farming, was discovered in the west