The mid-1840s were years of extraordinary territorial growth for the United States, a period in which the national domain increased by 1.2 million square miles, a gain of more than sixty percent. In 1845, the United States annexed Texas and the...

Manifest Destiny is a 19th-century belief that the United States had a mission to expand, spreading its form of democracy and freedom. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only good, but that it was obvious ("manifest") and...

The North-America territorial expansion was mainly justified by the Doctrine of Manifest Destiny, in which the US carried out the annexation of areas between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. The North Americans were chosen by destiny to dominate America. In reality the territorial...

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What was the Strongest Force behind American Imperialism: Evaluation of manifest destiny.

This was written for a standard five paragraph DBQ for AP US History. It is an analysis of how the idea of Manifest Destiny led to a Civil War between the North and the South of the United States. The letters in parentheses are referring to the documents cited, but they were not included. Manifest Destiny in the 1840s was the main reason that the United States engaged in a Civil War.

Manifest Destiny was a dream of expansion, a belief that it was destiny that Americans would spread westward. In all territorial growth there was conflict as it plays out in most of history. The United States was no exception.