Manifest Destiny

The Manifest Destiny was a 19th century term of expansion of westward settlement. Others believed it was that the United States would take the whole continent. This occurred from after the Revolutionary War to the 1850s. King George III raised the Proclamation of 1763 after their defeat at the hands of the Americans and trails were made. Many colonists moved through the Cumberlump Gap, also known as Wilderness Road. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president of the US, sent his friend Lieutenant Meriwhether Lewis and Indian fighter William Clark to explore new area that he was going to buy from Napoleon Bonaparte, the Louisana Territory. It was 3 c an acre. It stretched from the Canadian border of Montana and North Dakota to ports at New Orleans. Jefferson bought the land and it was considered the biggest bargain America ever had. After getting more states, thirteen supported slavery and thirteen were against it. The western border, belonging to the now-independent Mexico, was all that was left. Mexico's state, Texas, wanted to depart and had a battle at the Alamo. The Texas Ranger won and got freedom, but did not join the Union. Congress feared that the balance between slavery and anti-slavery would be broken. The Union admitted Texas, and it became a southern state. Mexican ambassadors were furious for their debt in Mexico, and James Polk bought California and modern-day Nex Mexico to help pay. After the Spanish-American war, America was complete, except for Alaska and Hawaii. During the civil war, states like California, Montana, and Colorado were not considered in the war. They states were big parts of the Manifest Destiny for mining gold.