Period 5 (1844 - 1877)

Question 1

What is Manifest Destiny?

Answer 1

Based on racial and cultural superiority, it justified the U.S.’s expansion west by saying that God wanted them to have all the land in the continent, and they were simply manifesting their “destiny” to attain all of it.

Question 2

What were the more practical reasons for westward expansion?

Answer 2

Americans needed more access to mineral and natural resources