Manifest Destiny was a philosophy that considered the United States was divinely ordained, justifiable and inevitable to expand its borders.
This philosophy encouraged the convergence of social, economic, and political factors helped urge the speed of westward expansion in the 19th century. With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 people were driven to the west, white settlers and proponents of expansion began to voice concerns over what they considered an obstacle to settlement - The American Indian tribes that lived there -. White settlers considered the lands east of the Mississippi River a great place to raise cattle, wheat, and cotton.
The convergence of Manifest Destiny and the need to expand was used to rationalize the removal of American Indians from their native homelands. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into law and authorized the president to reserve land west of the Mississippi River and exchange it for Native American land to the east of the Mississippi.
I believe it was Ottoman Empire.
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By 1913, the British Empire held sway over a population of about 458 million people, approximately one-quarter of the world'spopulation. It covered about 36.6 million km² (14.2 million square miles), about a quarter of Earth's total land area.
The South thought he was trying to end slavery- he was against it but he didn't claim he would end it until the Emancipation Proclamation. but anyways. They were upset and some 11 Southern states seceded.
