Go West: Manifest Destiny

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Go West, Young Man In the 1850s, if you wanted a new life, start a new adventure, or wanted to follow the American dream, the answer to your problems would be, “Go West, Young Man”. This sparked a new era for America called Manifest Destiny. The term “Manifest Destiny” essentially means that Americans wanted to expand westward because it was necessary for America, and it was their fate as a country. While moving west, it lured different people and added new pieces of land to our nation. For instance, Mountain Men and the addition of Lousiana, the breaking away of Texas which was a factor in creating the war we fought with Mexico, gaining the Mexican Cession and Gadsen Purchase, and the Gold Rush bringing varying people into California. …show more content…
He was going to populate the territory with French farmers, and would give the food they produced to the slaves they owned in the Caribbean who worked on plantations for sugar cane. In fear of not being able to get their crops to market because of the French, James Monroe went to France and asked Napoleon Bonaparte for the city of New Orleans in exchange for $7.5 million. At that time, the slaves of the French Caribbean led a rebellion and defeated the French soldiers. Frustrated, Napoleon no longer needed the Louisiana Territory and sold it to America for $15 million. Their reasoning was that they would rather sell the territory than to have Great Britain conquer it, which was most likely to happen. James Monroe happily agreed, and the Louisiana purchase doubled the size of the United States. The purchase was extremely vital to the expansion of the US because, without the Louisiana Territory, we probably wouldn’t have conquered other places like the Mexican Cession, Gadsden Purchase, and the Oregon …show more content…
American also agreed to give Mexico $15 million under this treaty for the land they provided us with. The US promised to protect 80,000 to 100,000 Mexicans still living in those territories, even though this promise wasn’t carried out. Soon after we bought this land, in 1853, James Gadsden brought a strip of land south of the Mexican Cession for 10 million. This flat piece of land was brought because it would serve as a good spot for a railroad route. These pieces of land that we got from Mexico was sparking the idea Manifest Destiny even more, as the American people would soon go so far West, they would reach the Pacific
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