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https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-early-republic/age-of-jackson/a/manifest-destiny

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The idea of Manifest Destiny is, in my opinion, both good and bad.

I think that it was a good idea at the time because it has made America into the independent nation that it had seeked in the beginning.

Manifest destiny was a bad idea in the sense that not only did Americans take the homes of many natives but also forced them to leave the land that they once called home. As people who have known what it was like to be prosecuted and forced to be something that they didn't want to be, that is the very same thing that they came to do to others.

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Many Native americans died due to the conflict

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Many people had a chance to explore new land

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https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/manifest-destiny

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There was tension and conflict between settlers, Native Americans, and citizens of Mexico

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Many people could have a fresh start

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Southerners wanted to expand slave population

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Improved economic opportunities

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Definition: Belief that it was the United States’ destiny to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory