Manifest Destiny Thesis

Introduction (Paragraph 1) Back then most people such as traders, farmers ,and women were poor, however after traveling towards the west, these groups went back home,were successful and wealthy. The phrase Manifest Destiny means the idea that americans were destined to expand westward by the word of god. That Many Americans were interested in western expansion, and that all groups benefited from Manifest Destiny. The Mexican American war was when the mexican government found out that the treaties had signed with texas in April 1844, it would consider such an act a declaration of war, in which allowed them to achieve Manifest Destiny. In 1848, word of gold in california spread, because of this, everyone migrated to california. A group of people were called the forty-niners,they traveled 18,000 miles around the tip of south America to benefit from the gold rush. Since much of california `was desert, arguing over water rights were common, the balance between free and slave states would not be equal and southerners feared that the Northernern States would have enough votes to abolish slavery. Manifest destiny had immensely impacted the lives of farmers, traders and shopkeepers by increasing their wealth and improving their

According to the text, “ The gold rush brought enormous ethnic diversity to California. People came from all over the world. After the news of the gold rush reached China, about 45,000 Chinese men went to California.” (The California Gold Rush). The author is trying to say that the discovery of gold from the west had called attention to everyone around the world, including China. The author also states how diverse California became after the discovery of gold. This evidence proves my claim by reinforcing the fact that thousands people such as farmers, who were poor, had gone to California in search of a better future and most of them becoming rich