The louisana purchase was about expansion, but it wasn't manifest desinty. Like I said the french sold it before we got the notion of expanding in our head.
from your link
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America's first giant step toward expansion came with the purchase of a huge piece of land from France known as the Louisiana Territory in 1803. The French dictator, Napoleon Bonaparte, was so desperate for money that he sold these lands for a mere $15 million.
and here's a link for you from pbs that did a piece on it.
Wouldn't a commie be clueless to american history?QUOTE
No nation ever existed without some sense of national destiny or purpose.
Manifest Destiny -- a phrase used by leaders and politicians in the 1840s to explain continental expansion by the United States -- revitalized a sense of "mission" or national destiny for Americans.
The people of the United States felt it was their mission to extend the "boundaries of freedom" to others by imparting their idealism and belief in democratic institutions to those who were capable of self-government. It excluded those people who were perceived as being incapable of self-government, such as Native American people and those of non-European origin
A small article on the trail of tears there are more but I'm a commie
Trail of TearsQUOTE
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died.
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