Manifest Destiny

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  • Polk, committed to Manifest Destiny and westward expansion, wished to annex California and New Mexico - provinces Mexico exerted little control over
  • American started to settle in both areas and little Mexican population
  • Many Americans supported westward expansion
  • In 1845, Democrat journalist John O'Sullivan declared it was USA's manifest destiny to control the North American continent
  • Advocates of manifest destiny invoked God and glory of democratic institutions
  • Yet many North Whigs saw it as a smokescreen aimed at concealing the evil intent of expanding slavery