Manifest Destiny is the belief that Americans had the right, or even the duty, to expand westward across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. This would spread the glorious institutions of civilization and democracy to the barbaric Native Americans.

Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.

The answer is option A “a belief that the United States had a duty or destiny to expand westward.” When the Manifest Destiny began the settlers thought that God himself told them to expand, so they though that God gave them a duty to expand westward and many people thought it was their destiny to carry out God’s will.

It caused them to keep moving west. Go West. The surge of pride in America at the time of Manifest Destiny pushed the expansion of the US into the western territories and lead to the annexation of Texas, all of Mexico’s western lands, California and more. You just studied 20 terms!

This ignited bloody wars between the Native Americans and the settlers. Native Americans ultimately lost and were relegated to reservations, usually on the worst patches of land. Abolitionists, slave owners, and slaves were also affected by Manifest Destiny.

What did the Mexican-American War have to do with Manifest Destiny? The concept of Manifest Destiny held that the United States had the providential right to expand to the Pacific Ocean. In 1845 the U.S. annexed the Republic of Texas, which had won de facto independence from Mexico in the Texas Revolution (1835–36).

How did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo finally achieve the idea of Manifest Destiny? A. It ended the Mexican American War and ceded land to the United States that gave it access to the Pacific Ocean.

How does this painting represent Manifest Destiny? this painting shows trains and people moving towards the west, following an angel that lights the way. this is manifest destiny because they’re expanding America westward. there are animals moving west, trains moving west, an angel moving west, and farmers moving west.

By creating the heavenly woman in the center, who bears the innovative telegraph wire in her left hand, Gast introduces the main argument of the painting: the idea that it was the heavenly duty of Americans to expand the country all the way to the Pacific Ocean. This idea surely resonated with people at the time.

• the answer is D.Industrial , intellectual,technical.
• agricultural, industrial, legal this is the correct answer. i just took a test on it and this is the correct choice.