Manifest Destiny Research Paper

"The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent…" John L. O' Sullivan At the time of the mid- 1800's most Americans thought that it was destiny for the United States to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. There were many reasons why people wanted to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A few reasons were free farmland was offered to people out west. As well as the growing population along the Atlantic, gold, and other discoveries found out west. Many people thought that the manifest destiny was predictable and was just a matter of time before it happened. Though moving west sounded like a spontaneous adventure for many it wasn't. For many people settling west