The people of the united states wanted to create a mighty nation.Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United states would expand across the continent. Many events in American history happen that helped the growth of the U.S. In 1803 the united states doubled its size with the Louisiana purchase. The year after, they gain the Texas, Florida and California with the Mexican Cession. America bought many other small lands until they went from Atlantic to Pacific ocean. Manifest Destiny meant that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory all over North America and to make their influences on political, social and economic grow. Americans wanted to settle on lands in the west because they needed land and there was much more land for them in the west. The west was a land of new opportunity, wide open spaces and wealth.
map of the U.S. 1783-1853
"our manifest destiny [is] to... possess the whole continent." John O' Sullivan