HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Southern Democrats, Midwestern United States, Manifest Destiny
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Manifest destiny begins to break down as a system of consensus due to the fact that the usa was inadequately prepared to deal with what territorial growth would mean for sectionalism and the slavery- freedom divide. Manifest destiny has its origins in the colonial period. The us settled its borders with spain in 1819 with the adams-onis treaty line in exchange for spain ceding florida to the americans. However, there was a belief that the us" national border was to be pushed inexorably to the pacific, as part of a divine plan and. The five civilized nations (and the seminoles) were removed by jackson and his successor martin van. Buren both for the reason that they were nations within nations, and for humanitarian reasons of not wanting them to become extinct as the united states was growing. The indian removal act of 1830 legislated the removal of many native peoples, most notable the five civilized nations.
