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Westward Expansion

In the mid-19th century, the West drew increasing numbers of American settlers despite the hardships of the journey and the difficult living conditions that waited them at their journey's end. Thus Americans were immediately sized on the phrase " Manifest Destiny"- believing that United State's destiny is manifest, inevitable, to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory.
Various factors in the United States in early 1800's caused the nation to become grabbed with the Western Expansion. First, there were geographical and psychological issues. After Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which had doubled the United States' size, Americans explored this huge territory in limited numbers. Then the fever of expansion swept through country; Americans believed that their movement westward and southward was destined and ordained by God.
Also, the economic factors influenced the country taking in part in Manifest
Destiny. In this period......

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