Embracing Manifest Destiny
A persuasive article appealing to settlers to expand West.
Thirty dollars can buy you a two-hundred pound sack of flour, fifty pounds of bacon, or even a barrel of potatoes, but with Manifest Destiny in mind, thirty dollars can buy you about five-hundred acres of frontier land.
Manifest Destiny is the philosophical idea that we should claim the North American continent for the whole U.S. Manifest Destiny is supported by many fellow Americans. However, some feel it is necessary to leave the western land to the Indians and other nations. Others feel that God didn’t mean for us to claim the land. By letting western land escape America’s grasp, the economy will be forced into an economical depression because land and supplies will all be used in the small the area of the U.S. right now, until it all depletes completely.
Manifest Destiny needs to be embraced. God put the land here for us to take, so let us take it! The frontier land lends economic opportunities to farmers because of the land’s rich, fertile soil. Maritime merchants will be able to build ports on the west coast to expand trade.
Dilemmas concerning the issue of embracing Manifest Destiny and heading west include the possibilities of crop failure, not finding gold, dying of a disease, business failure, or home-sickness. Many of those rarely happen, so embracing Manifest Destiny and heading west is a good choice.
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