Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Manifest Destiny

What were the benefits and drawbacks of the belief in manifest destiny? Use specific reference to the section to support your response?

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  1. Some benifits of manifest destiny were the expanton of land. People owning land was an important step towards prosperity. Also it made it so America could trade with Asia not just Europe. Several harbors in the Oregon Territory woild help expand trade. A few drawbacks of manifest destiny are the fact that we had to kick Native Americans off their land and send them to reservations and they werent treated very nicely. Most of the Native Americans tried to keep their culture alive but some became apart of the advancing white culture.

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  2. Benefits of the Manifest Destiny were more land for farming and land speculation. They were able to find new markets for manufactured goods and services. More harbors allowed them to be able to trade with China. It also gave immigrants more living space. Drawbacks of the Manifest Destiny were Native Americans were kicked out of their territory and were treated unfairly. Many of the Native Americans tried preserving their culture but it ended up changing due to the new white culture that was now there. The movement of U.S. settlers in the west had disastrous effects on the Native American communities that were there.

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  3. Some good things that the Manifest Destiny brought were the expansion of the country and the abundance of land that attracted people and people owning land was a step forward to prosperity.It also brought new markets for their goods.It also brought some drawbacks that made Native Americans leave their land and were not treated well and it was hard for them to maintain their cultural traditions alive even if they were forced to move to traditional lands.

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  4. Some of the benefits of the Manifest Destiny are that we gained more land and ports that we used for trade and learned more about the continent. A draw back is that we killed many Native Americans, fought wars and angered the Mexicans.

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  5. Some of the benefits of Manifest Destiny were that there was expansion of land and that land was fertile and very good soil to farm on so that was one benefit, also all the other resources that those lands had we got so it helped out the United States overall. A drawback was that we killed so many lives just land. We go into so many little wars,we killed many Native Americans just for their land. We also got into wars with countries around us.

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  6. The benefits of the manifest destiny are thatthe expansion of the land helped to increase power among the United States. The land aquired was also fertile and equipped for farming. Some drawbacks would be that we had to force all of the native americans off of their land. They were not treated fairly at all and they were forced off of their own land. They tried to keep their culture alive but sadly fate was not in favor of the native americans.

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  7. Once again, everyone considers the concept of gaining more land as a "benefit", of course it is, and yet it still caused so many problems for the native people along with other people living withing those areas. The only beneficial resource gained through land expansion were new ports, river routes, and more land to farm on(fertile soil). We fail to see the point that through all this prosperity, we killed, we murdered, we destroyed, and we lied. We forced innocent tribes, only stricken to defend their own land that rightfully belongs to them, out. the American society obliterated almost all native people during that time. All for what? More land and resource. This is only the tip of the iceberg. We went through full fledged war with other countries such as Mexico, and other nations in order to gain more land. How much were we willing to sacrifice? ALOT...

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  8. There were many benifits to the idea of Manifest destiny. for one it would double the size of the U.S. It also would give the U.S more farming lands and more waters for trade. Some of drawbacks were the Native Americans were being pushed onto provinces and they lost land

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  9. There were many more Benifits than Drawbacks for the United States. The size of the United States doubled and increased there supply and goods. More land ment more success and money. The economy soared, snd much better trade cause now they had the N.O port wich was the biggest port.

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  10. The benefits of the Manifest Destiny are the expanded geography of the country, improved national identity, and more wealth.
    The Drawbacks are the cruelty made to Native Americans by taking their lands, increase division between north and south because of slavery, leads to Civil War.

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  11. Some benefits of the Manifest Destiny are we gained land and ports. The land was good for trade and the ports help expand trade to other countries. The land was also good for farming. Some draw back are that we killed Native Americans. And we got into wars with other countries for the land.

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  12. Some of the benefits that manifest destiny had were that it expanded the land that the united states had. for example the Louisiana purchase doubled the size of the united states. One of the drawbacks was that came with this was that many native Americans were forced of their land in order for the united states to be able to expand. also with the purchase of land many ports were gain along with rivers like the Mississippi river.

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  13. there were many good things that came out of the manifest destiny. one was that it expanded the amount of land that the united states had. this brought good farming opportunities and land ownership for many americans which could lead people to become wealthy. a negative affect of the manifest destiny was that many native americans were forced off of their land. this caused wars between the native americans and americans.

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  14. The benefits from the manifest destiny was the expansion of land. It double the size of the country and there were natrual resoures for trade. A few drawbacks from manifest destiny were that we kicked out the Native Americans off their land and were forced to changed their culture

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  15. Manifest destiny

    Benifits- more land to settle on, more recources, expand economy, more living space, mixture of culture, and finally increased the size of the U.S.

    Drawbacks-conflicts with Native's because the Americans are moving onto the Native's land with out warning or permission, war with mexico for more land, and more land to take care of, now with more land we need more money to take care of the land, which includes military and business's. :)<3

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  16. Manifest Destiny had many banefits and drawbacks. Some benefits from manifest destiny was the expansion of the country to lands that were reasourceful and allowed for trade with Asia over the Pacif Ocean. Some drawbacks from manifest destiny was that to be able to expand on the new lands, the Native Americans had to be forced off their lands and were treated very unfairly. this caused fightd between Americans and Native Americans over the land.

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  17. Benefits was that it expanded the U.S in size and also in power. Drawbacks was that the land was unexplored and it was going to take a while to get people to settle on the new land. Another drawback was that even more native americans were forced off of their lands and treated very poorly by the white people.

    P.S MR BURGER WHY ARE YOU UP AT 5:04AM...

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  18. The many benefits of manifest destiny include increasing land size of the country which means more recources. by increasing the land you increase trade routes, more people can settle into the land and you also get ore power. there are some drawbacks though like the money to buy land can weaken your country. also the wars it might take to take over the lands and the people you will loose in battle. the last drawback would be the brutality of taking the land from the native americans by force.

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  19. Some of the benefits of the Manifest Destiny were that there was more land for farming and settling. New and more land gave them more resourses.More harbors were built which increased trade with other nations. Some drawbacks of the Manifest Destiny were that the Native Americans were not treated fairly and they got kicked out of their lands. Also more land costs more money and many wars took place because of disagreements between the people.

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  20. The benefits of the manifest destiny are that the expansion of the land helped to increase power among the United States. New and more land gave them more resources. More harbors were built which increased trade with more nations. Some drawbacks were conflicts with Native's because the Americans are moving onto the Native's land with out warning,they were forced to change their culture which isn't right at all !

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  21. The benefits of manifest destiny were that it joined the U.S for one goal. It also was an example of the increasing power of the growing country. The new expansions also increased the United states resources ans opened many new trading routes. The negative side of manifest destiny was that the U.S. was expanding onto territory of the Native Americans. The native Americans were moved from there homeland or even killed off.

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  22. the benefits of manifest destiny was that the U.S. expanded its land. Also the U.S. increased its power by expanding its land. We were able to get more resources such as oil, gold and silver and more trade routes to other countries. Some negatives were that we killed many native americans on our way to Manifest Destiny.

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  23. The benefits of manifest destiny is that our counrty got to expand its land and double its size and also the united states power increased and the negative part of manifest destiny is that people where getting killed on the way to expanision and also the native americans where treated horribly and they were gettin mistreated by the americans and getting moved from their land and forced to move west.

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  24. Manifest destiny benefits were the gain in more resources land and growth of the US. Also gave a sense of pride and nationalism for the US. The negative part were they were Destroying Native americans villages and being mistreated. There were a lot of wars and problems between americans and indians as americans expanded to the west and forced them out.

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  25. Manifest Destiny is the belief that the U.S. should expand from coast to coast. A positive effect of manifest destiny was that the U.S. dramatically grew in size and in power. A negative of manifest destiny is that to get the land, we had to spend alot of money and fight in some wars. We also kicked the Native Americans off of their land.

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  26. The belief in the manifest destiny had many positve and negative effects. The U.S gained more land power and resoures but because of this beleif natives were forced from thier land and war took place with mexico and many other nations

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  27. The positives of manifest destiny were that the united states could expand their nation which is always beneficial. The nation could find new resources, expand their population, have a bigger economy and be more powerful overall. Things like fertile land in Texas helped the u.s. The negative parts of this idea is that there were inhabitants in these land that the us took over and they were forced out. This could have ended cultures and things of the sort.

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  28. The positive effects of Manifest destiny is the gaining of land. This lead to more farming and more ways of making money and helping the econmy. It allowed for people to find new recources and it made room for population to expand. Some of the negative effects were that it caused conflicts with the natives. They were basically pushing they natives off their land and takin it for themselves causing war and things like that.

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  29. Manifest destiny for one it would double the size of the U.S, and gave the U.S more farming lands and more waters for trade, and power. And the MD is the belief that the U.S. should expand from coast to coast, which proves why it is so0o important.Negative effects are the Native Americans were pushed off their own land, and treated badly. And another is that in order to expand we had to use money and fight wars against other territories.

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  30. There were many benefits that Manifest Destiny had. One benefit was that the land the united states had expanded. This lead to farming which helped the economy cause it was a way to make money. Expansion of land increased the power of the United States.

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