Ok so who is piggy and who is Ralph? I don’t get it…
The Gold Rush did, indeed, speed up the process of Manifest Destiny. The Gold Rush was a period of hope for riches. Once a person would hear that there had been gold discovered in the West, they would instantly pack up their things and head Westward. Manifest Destiny was the American's belief that they needed to expand. Traveling West and settling all around similar areas would be the beginning of expansion. People would keep moving from their land and heading toward the source of gold. When the gold rush technically ended, people had the choice to either settle where they have been for a long time, now, or head back to where they had come. Maybe they settled in the middle of where they are and where they were because it was such a tiring journey that they weren't willing to make. However, knowing that they had gone to the West and expanded a little, it would strike their interest and fascination even more to the point where they may want to expand even more than they had wanted to before. Already having traveled to the West, they wouldn't have any time to doubt that they could expand easily.
Answer:
C
Explanation:
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Answer: B) The Organic Theory
Details:
The Organic Theory of geography -- or maybe more accurately, of geopolitics -- was proposed by German geographer Friedrich Ratzel in 1897. He suggested that nations function similarly to living organisms. The controversial part of his theory was that the way a living organism takes in nourishment to grow and thrive, strong nations naturally will nourish and expand themselves, taking in weaker nations or cultures around them. Ratzel coined the term "Lebensraum" (German for "living space"), which originally, in his view, meant the space for a strong nationalist culture to grow. His writings came only a few decades after the German Empire had been reborn as the "Second Reich" (second kingdom), a renewal of the older "Holy Roman Empire" of German states as they were linked together in the medieval era. Ratzel's ideas about "Lebensraum" later were picked up by Hitler and the Nazis as a justification for expanding German territory and taking over neighboring countries. Germany's expansion under the Nazis as the "Third Reich" led to World War II in Europe.
B. The meeting was held in France and not the U.S.
