So, the term "Manifest Destiny" refers to the belief that the United States was not only capable of, but also destined to, extend from coast to coast during the 19th century period of American development. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. It implies that everything we are going to accomplish has already been planned.
Some of the cons of Manifest Destiny are Native American tribes being massacred, Mexico being forced into war and suffering a humiliating defeat in 1849, the United States continued its involvement further into Latin America, and Manifest Destiny continued into Hawaii and Asian continent.
The Native Americans had little regard for Manifest Destiny; whether they were vanquished and displaced by the United States or by Mexico made little difference to them. California, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona were taken from Mexico as a result of the American war with Mexico and the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. Because Mexico's ties with the Native Americans were as terrible as those of the United States of America, the Native Americans would have been just as badly off if Mexico had held that land. The majority of the Apache chief Goyaale's war career was spent battling Mexico rather than the USA. He is better known to us by his Spanish name Geronimo. Similar to how the entrance of the Americans did, the Spanish and subsequently Mexican missions in California<em> brought with them sickness, dispossession, and forced labor</em>. Whether California is controlled by Mexico or the United States, if gold is discovered there, the entire globe will swarm there, bringing sickness and bloodshed to the unfortunate locals. Mexican forces continued to put down Native American uprisings in Chiapas as <em>late as 1994</em>.
The transcontinental railroad, though, is the unpredictable factor. Mexico lacked the industrial might of the United States and would have found it challenging to construct its own railroads<em> into the West</em>. On the other hand, it might have<em> hired American businesses to construct railways,</em> which would have prevented Mexico from being delayed by the divisions that America experienced (<em>the North wanted a northern transcontinental railroad, the South wanted a southern one, which was the main reason it took until after the Civil War to get it built</em>). Because they control how<em> rapidly</em> the bison herds are wiped out,<em> railways have a big impact on how quickly the Native Americans are vanquished</em>. The construction of the transcontinental railroad and the terrible loss of <em>Native American sovereignty </em>may happen much sooner or much later than they did historically if <em>Manifest Destiny were not a factor</em>.
