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.