Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion
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Jim Taylor writing in American Demographics explains that a term coined in the 1840s to express the general sentiment among Americans that they were as a people, destined by the Divine to expand and occupy all areas of the continent that did not yet belong to the United States of America. Taylor writes that people moved west and kept moving west until, by the middle of the 19th century, America was a bicoastal nation (Taylor, 2004). According to chapter 15 of A Divided Nation when the issue of slavery was not addressed by the Democrats and Whigs, the Free-Soil Party was formed. T
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