1. The United State's Manifest Destiny
In order to fulfill their manifest destiny, Americans believed they had the right to resist and retaliate against any foreign power that stood in their way of westward expansion. ... To improve their economic prospects, Americans and immigrants alike began to seek better opportunities elsewhere; "roughly two-thirds of the rural population moved every decade, and population turnover in cities was even greater" (305) Reform movements caused groups, such abolitionists, to also head west to escape the evils of a society dependent on slavery. Abolitionists have mostly freed slaves, who...
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