Question

What role did Manifest Destiny play in the westward expansion of the United States?

Answer 1

Settlers believed it to be the destiny of the United States to expand west to the Pacific Ocean, justifying their actions at the expense of American Indians.

Manifest Destiny was the belief that America was destined by God to settle from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This let to the violent expansion of America westward. The crimes against the Native Americans was justified by the white settlers through this belief.