settlers despite the hardships of the journey and the difficult living conditions at the

journey's end. Thus Americans were immediately sized on the phrase " Manifest

Destiny"- believing that United State's destiny is manifest, inevitable, to expand to

the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory.

Various factors in the United States in early 1800's caused the nation to

become grabbed with the Western Expansion. First, there were geographical and

psychological issues. After Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase in 1803 which

had doubled the United States' size, Americans explored this huge territory in

limited numbers. Then the fever of expansion swept through country; Americans

believed that their movement westward and southward was destined and ordained

Also, the economic factors influenced the country taking in part in Manifest

Destiny. In this period of time, Americans were thirst for the land. Americans

wanted to claim land for farming and land speculation because it was an important

step toward prosperity. Moreover, the Panic of 1930 with its disastrous

consequences convinced many Americans to attempt

The Manifest Destiny, the migration of West , brought a great change in the

Party. The Donner Party was the group of people from Springfield, Illinois, who

was fraud. " The only trouble was that the guide's author, Lansford Warren

Oregon Trail was initiated by the Methodist missionaries Marcus and Narcissa

Americans was greatly affected. The Native Americans tried to maintain their

protect the people from the attacks of Native Americans or wild animals. The

Texas announced the independence and formed its own government in March 1836.

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