In the 1840s, the U.S was struck with the idea of <em>manifest destiny</em>. An idea that America should control North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Mexico had the legal right to Texas thus dominated California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Two territories stood in America's way of accomplishing the manifest destiny idea; first, the Oregon Territory that was occupied by both Great Britain and the United States and the Western and Southwestern areas owned by Mexico. The differences between the United States and Mexico over the border of Texas led to the Mexican American War that resulted in American gaining ownership of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas. The ownership of these territories fulfilled the '<em>Manifest Destiny' </em>of the U.S stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Manifest Destiny.
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The Scientific Revolution influenced the development of the Enlightenment values of individualism because it demonstrated the power of the human mind. ... The power of human beings to discern truth through reasoning influenced the development of the Enlightenment value of rationalism.
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Even if Germany didn't declare war on the USA in 1941, the US would have been forced to declare war later on anyway. ... Dozens of merchant ships were sunk off the East Coast of the United States between 1941 and 1945. Sooner or later, these sinking would have forced FDR's hand to declare war on Germany.
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Explanation: " Harsh conditions on most reservations made hunting and farming for subsistence impossible, leading to conflicts over access to resources" does not talk about hostilities between the US government and American Indians living on reservations.
