Manifest Destiny Thesis

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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

lifestyles.

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One group that had benefited from Manifest Destiny were the farmers from the east.

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

individuals.

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Among the first group who benefited from Manifest Destiny, there was the trader/merchants hanging around the world at that time. According to the excerpt, “ These towns attracted miners and people hoping to make money from miners. Miners were willing to pay high prices for supplies and entertainment.” This means that people, such as merchants, had went off to not only search for gold , but to also gain a financial benefit, from the need of supplies and entertainment from the miners searching for gold. This proves that merchants did really make a profit from the Manifest Destiny era, resulting in wealth and an improvement of their lifestyles. I can infer from the author that thousands of individuals received major benefits from the expansion towards the west and one of those groups, were merchants.

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The last group to receive a major benefit from the Manifest Destiny era had been women. According to the excerpt, “ Still, some women did came to California, which offered women profitable work.” (The California Gold Rush). In other words, women were able to head towards California to change their lifestyle to incorporate a more wealthy lifestyle and obtain better jobs. The evidence proves my claim, because the evidence clearly states how women were able to gain, “profitable work,” showing that women did not have profitable work beforehand and displaying the fact that women did in fact benefit from the expansion of Manifest Destiny.

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The groups that benefited from Manifest Destiny were the lives of farmers, traders and shopkeepers by increasing their wealth and improving their lifestyles. One group that did not benefit from the concept of Manifest Destiny were the texans because the mexican and american war did not take place without argument because Texas had been added to the slave states of the Union, however, texans did not benefit from manifest destiny. This important to know for people to expand what they're exploring and if you do more you can benefit from these things, such as the traders, they went great lengths to sell what they had and due to this they got rich, this is benefiting from manifest destiny. This impacts us today because people should expand more of what there looking for, if more people do that probably more land will be found and even more people can benefit from manifest destiny today.