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White Leaders Predict the Disappearance of Mexicans and Native Americans in California
With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the United States gained over half a million square miles of new lands in the Southwest. However, American settlers who traveled west to settle the land were not moving into unoccupied territory. [...]
Tags: Manifest Destiny, Native Americans
Item Type: Newspaper/Magazine
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)
An American Journalist Explains “Manifest Destiny”
John L. O’Sullivan was an influential journalist and supporter of the Democratic Party. In 1839, he laid out historical, moral, political, and economic reasons for westward expansion. In 1845, O’Sullivan rallied support for the annexation of [...]
Item Type: Newspaper/Magazine
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)