Life in the United States in the 1830's was sectional, the south was set on farming the north was industrialized and the west was expanding. The United States was starting to become a mature country stable economically with its process of making the raw materials in the south and west and then processing and shipping them in the north to make large profits. The reactions of Manifest Destiny were political, economical and positive and negative effects.
The phrase "Manifest Destiny" is the belief that it is Americans god given right to expand and grow and bring religion to people who were more "backwards" than themselves. The term was coined in 1845 by journalist John L. O'Sullivan in his essay titled "Annexation". Americans believed that they were the only people in the world who had the right and blessing of god to settle land everywhere. Even the government believed in manifest destiny, President Polk tried to buy Cuba and Mexico but failed and started war instead. Manifest......
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