HIST 105 : Study Guide Ch. 14.doc
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From the 1830s to the 1850s, the concept of manifest destiny became a mantra and eventually a battle cry for a majority of the united states. Americans continued their westward migration throughout this period with trade, scientific curiosity, avarice for mineral wealth, and a surging nationalism, all being major forces driving them to new lands. In the wake of this drive toward westward settlement, the united states pushed aside many longtime inhabitants of these lands. Indians in the east were pushed onto reservations in the trans-mississippi west, while. Tejanos and californios became strangers in their ancestral homes once that territory became controlled by the. Armed with the firm belief that god had given the lands of north america to their nation, Americans threatened war with britain over oregon and waged war against mexico as ambitious politicians used expansion as a key campaign weapon. However, while winning an election and a war, territory-hungry.
