https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is Made with serendipity en-us 2018-05-21 17:56:53 UTC 2023-05-23 15:53:22 UTC hello@padlet.com 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262456405  Expansion required many disputes over land, and purchases for land, such as the Louisiana purchase, or the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo, and then the Annexation of Texas. ]]> 2018-05-21 17:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262456405 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262457137 Many people traveled West in the search for Gold during the California Gold Rush. They were given the nickname, Forty Niners.]]> 2018-05-21 18:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262457137 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262458137 The Nationalism of Americans very much led to Westward Expansion by fueling the fire of the entitlement and determination to reach somewhere new and somewhere West. ]]> 2018-05-21 18:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262458137 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262458262 As America Expanded and began annexing new states the balance between free and slave states was always a prominent necessity. So many states were put on hold until the government could find a solution to possible imbalances.]]> 2018-05-21 18:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262458262 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262458553  there were additional forces and political agendas at work. As the population of the original 13 Colonies grew and the U.S. economy developed, the desire and attempts to expand into new land increased. For many colonists, land represented potential income, wealth, self-sufficiency and freedom. Expansion into the western frontiers offered opportunities for self-advancement.]]> 2018-05-21 18:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262458553 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262458753 Nearly 300,000 people traveled West. ]]> 2018-05-21 18:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262458753 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262459186 The United States believed its mission was to extend the "boundaries of freedom" to others by imparting its idealism and belief in democratic institutions to those who were capable of self-government. It "excluded those people who were perceived as being incapable of self-government," such as Native American people and those of non-European origin.]]> 2018-05-21 18:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262459186 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262460356 Many people also fled to the West in search of a place where the would not be persecuted for their religion, such as the Mormons.

]]> 2018-05-21 18:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262460356 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262461063 The Second Great Awakening revived the fervency of religious determination, fueling the idea of Manifest Destiny being a god sanctioned right and inevitability. ]]> 2018-05-21 18:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262461063 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262461654 Many people who believed in Western expansion did not even feel it was a success at a time. Lots of controversy followed it. Lots of northerners thought it was code for spreading slavery. ]]> 2018-05-21 18:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262461654 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262461899 The term Manifest Destiny, was not a common coined term at the time. It wasn't the official term used in the offices or anything like that. It was a phrase coined by a journalist that died before it ever caught wind and gained popularity around the 1890's. His name was John L. O' Sullivan.

]]> 2018-05-21 18:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262461899 20msteadman https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262462622 Manifest Destiny was considered a God-given right, that we were destined to expand to the Atlantic Coast of the continent. ]]> 2018-05-21 18:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/20msteadman/8byvm477v9is/wish/262462622