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Explanation:
Reasons given in support of Manifest Destiny are:
1. "It's an American right to stretch from sea to shining sea." This implies that it is the natural right of the United States to expand from the East Coast to the West Coast, or from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as they may see fit.
2. "We (Americans) also have a responsibility to civilian this beautiful land." This implies that Americans should take over and expose the inhabitants of the territory to civilizations and advanced cultures
3. "The American claim is by the right of our manifest to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which providence has given for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federative self-government entrusted to us." This implies that it is true God's power and influence that the Americans are entrusted to overspread and possess another territory.
Reasons given in Rejection of Manifest Destiny are:
1. "America has no right to take the land west of Louisiana territory. Those lands are rightfully owned by Mexico." This implies that there is no constitutional right for America to possess such land.
2. "To enter into conflict with the Mexicans just to expand and take that land would violate the principles of this nation." This implies that taking over such territory is against the tenets of democracy and American values.
3. " They were really after gold." This implies that the purpose of the American expansion is not to civilize the inhabitants and the territory but to exploit them to their advantage.
4. "Many Indians died for that." This implies that such expansion in the past has only lead to the death of the inhabitants rather than save them. Because often it led to conflicts and wars resulting in the death of many native Indians.
