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How did the idea of Manifest Destiny help bring about the
expansion of the United States? MARISSA GERCKEN
TYLER DUBOSH
SAMATHA WALTERS
MANIFEST DESTINEY
•The belief of manifest destiny was that America was destined to expand all the way to the pacific ocean.
James Polk
• He was a President.
• Was elected because he believed in Manifest Destiny.
• 54’40 fight
John O’Sullivan
He was the first person to coin the term manifest destiny.
How manifest destiny worked
-Many people in America had that belief
-Because so many people believed it, many people moved westward.
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