Question

How did Manifest Destiny alter people's lives in the United States?

Native Americans were forced to give up their land east of the Mississippi River.

People decided to settle west to the Pacific Ocean and south to Mexico.

People began to fear Russia's and Spain's intentions to set up colonies in the Americas.

It slowed down settlement of the Oregon Territory in the northwest United States.

Answer 1

Manifest Destiny was the belief that white American's had a God given right to spread out, so people began to move west, as people moved west they began to run into Native American peoples.

Answer 2

People decided to settle west to the Pacific Ocean and south to Mexico.