How was the Mexican Cession important to Manifest Destiny?

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Sim W.
Apr 16, 2018

American territory widened

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Manifest Destiny is a term describing the symbolic advance of civilization westward. Since the whole SouthWest was a cession of Mexico, it meant this principle could prevail as the triumph of civilization embodied by the USA could prevail in this new western territory. Despite the 15 million dollars allowance given to Mexico as a compensation, many historians such as Howard Zinn described this policy as conquest.

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