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1840’s Manifest Destiny

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1840’s Manifest Destiny

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  1. 1840’s Manifest Destiny

  2. Manifest Destiny The term “Manifest Destiny” was used in the 1800’s to express the belief that the united states was divinely inspired to spread democracy and freedoms across North America. It was a set of beliefs that involved many ideas about race, religion, and culture. John L. Sullivan started this act.

  3. Most settlers were local trappers, farmers, miners, merchants, hunters, ranchers, teachers, and domestics. They headed west to settle They traveled on the Oregon Trail The county’s population grew from 5 million in 1880 to 23 million by midcentury

  4. By 1860, 4.3 million people had settled in the Trans-Mississippi west.

  5. Indian and Mexican inhabitants got pushed out of their own region due to the waves of American settlement. They were displaced, reduced to second-class citizens status or, placed in reservations.

  6. The Manifest Destiny was the beginning of the end for several hundred thousand Native Americans and buffalo

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