Since many people picture the manifest destiny movement as prophecy of Americans claiming the land that was rightfully there's by god. ... While Americans believed in manifest destiny and continued pushing west, thousands of Indians were killed and forced to move from their land that they had lived on for thousands of years. The view towards the Mexican army was that they were the "bad guys" while in fact, the U.S. were the ones who trespassed and took over Mexico's land. ...

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For example David Wilmot wanted to move out west to farm and he could not do that because of the growth of slavery which was bad for his cause because if the slaves could do it for free who would pay him and others to farm, he just wanted his free land to farm and make money (doc 2). ...

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The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. The sectional divisions between the North and South caused tensions leading up to the Civil War, but the issue of slavery would ultimately lead to war. Tensions evolved between the North and South before the Civil War due to their difference in econ...

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