Title: Manifest Destiny Expansion Into the West - PHDessay.com
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Manifest Destiny Expansion Into the West
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Content: Without people moving and living in the land, the United States would not fulfill its destiny [Doc 6]. The land of California was another economic incentive that justified Manifest Destiny and the movement westward. California held economic advantages such as abundant resources including mineral, agricultural, commercial and manufacturing and a good vantage point to trade with countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. In President Polk’s State of the Union Address in 1847, he justified the right of the United States to acquire California by saying that the Mexican government would not be able to properly control the land over the far distance in between. Furthermore, if the United States would give up control over it, a European power would attempt to claim it by either force or purchase. He also mentioned the
Monroe Doctrine which states that “no foreign power shall with our consent be permitted to plant or establish any new colony or dominion on any part of the North American continent must be maintained.” In other words, it would go against our destiny to allow another country to settle land that is in our entitlement. Manifest Destiny was the idea that the United States was entitled to all of the North American land. Pro-expansionists used this idea to take over land either by purchase or by war. The idea of entitlement fueled westward expansion and there were laws created to achieve control over all of the land.