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    The documents provide various factors that helped Americans achieve their goal of Manifest Destiny through Westward Expansion in 3 or less sentences: Document 1 discusses the financial and security benefits of Indian removal including opening more land for white settlement to strengthen the frontier. Document 4 establishes the Homestead Act of 1862 which gave settlers ownership of public land after living on it for 5 years and making improvements, encouraging further expansion. Document 6 promotes westward expansion as inevitable and divinely sanctioned, ensuring American progress and greatness.

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    The documents provide various factors that helped Americans achieve their goal of Manifest Destiny through Westward Expansion in 3 or less sentences: Document 1 discusses the financial and security benefits of Indian removal including opening more land for white settlement to strengthen the frontier. Document 4 establishes the Homestead Act of 1862 which gave settlers ownership of public land after living on it for 5 years and making improvements, encouraging further expansion. Document 6 promotes westward expansion as inevitable and divinely sanctioned, ensuring American progress and greatness.

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    The documents provide various factors that helped Americans achieve their goal of Manifest Destiny through Westward Expansion in 3 or less sentences: Document 1 discusses the financial and security benefits of Indian removal including opening more land for white settlement to strengthen the frontier. Document 4 establishes the Homestead Act of 1862 which gave settlers ownership of public land after living on it for 5 years and making improvements, encouraging further expansion. Document 6 promotes westward expansion as inevitable and divinely sanctioned, ensuring American progress and greatness.

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    The documents provide various factors that helped Americans achieve their goal of Manifest Destiny through Westward Expansion in 3 or less sentences: Document 1 discusses the financial and security benefits of Indian removal including opening more land for white settlement to strengthen the frontier. Document 4 establishes the Homestead Act of 1862 which gave settlers ownership of public land after living on it for 5 years and making improvements, encouraging further expansion. Document 6 promotes westward expansion as inevitable and divinely sanctioned, ensuring American progress and greatness.

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    Westward Expansion DBQ

    Analyze the factors that Americans attempted to help


    achieve their goal of Manifest Destiny through Westward
    Expansion.

    Document 1
    The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United States, to
    individual States, and to the Indians themselves. The pecuniary advantages which it
    promises to the Government are the least of its recommendations. It puts an end to all
    possible danger of collision between the authorities of the General and State
    Governments on account of the Indians. It will place a dense and civilized population in
    large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters. By opening the whole
    territory between Tennessee on the north and Louisiana on the south to the settlement of
    the whites it will incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier and render the
    adjacent States strong enough to repel future invasions without remote aid. It will relieve
    the whole State of Mississippi and the western part of Alabama of Indian occupancy, and
    enable those States to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power.

    Document 2

    Document 3

    Document 4
    May 20, 1862
    AN ACT to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. Be it enacted,
    That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twentyone years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration
    of intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws of the United
    States, and who has never borne arms against the United States Government or given
    aid and comfort to its enemies, shall, from and after the first of January, eighteen
    hundred and sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter-section or a less quantity of
    unappropriated public lands, upon which said person may have filed a pre-emption
    claim. . . . Provided, that any person owning or residing on land may, under the
    provision of the act, enter other land lying contiguous to his or her said land, which
    shall not, with the land already owned and occupied, exceed in the aggregate one
    hundred and sixty acres.

    Document 5
    A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers; but when I go up to the
    river I see camps of soldiers here on its bank. These soldiers cut down my
    timber; they kill my buffalo; and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting;
    I feel sorry. Indian Chief
    Document 6
    We have no interest in the scenes of antiquity, only as lessons of avoidance
    of nearly all their examples. The expansive future is our arena, and for our
    history. We are entering on its untrodden space, with the truths of God in our
    minds, beneficent objects in our hearts, and with a clear conscience unsullied
    by the past. We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set
    limits to our onward march? Providence is with us, and no earthly power can.
    We point to the everlasting truth on the first page of our national declaration,
    and we proclaim to the millions of other lands, that "the gates of hell" -- the
    powers of aristocracy and monarchy -- "shall not prevail against it."The farreaching, the boundless future will be the era of American greatness. In its
    magnificent domain of space and time, the nation of many nations is destined
    to manifest to mankind the excellence of divine principles; to establish on
    earth the noblest temple ever dedicated to the worship of the Most High -the Sacred and the True. Its floor shall be a hemisphere -- its roof the
    firmament of the star-studded heavens, and its congregation an Union of
    many Republics, comprising hundreds of happy millions, calling, owning no
    man master, but governed by God's natural and moral law of equality, the
    law of brotherhood -- of "peace and good will amongst men.". . . James O.
    Sullivan
    Document 7

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