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According to the article all of the following fueled Manifest Destiny EXCEPT

• The victory of the war of 1812

• The Jacksonian mentality of every man being equal

• Competition for the Western land between the United States, France and Mexico

• The Puritain Ideal of "A City Upon a Hill

The religious fervor spawned by the (a)   created another incentive for the drive west. Indeed, many settlers believed that God himself blessed the growth of the American nation.

Some of the first people to cross the Mississippi into the west were ...

• Miners searching for rivers filled with gold

• Missionaries trying to convert Natives to Christianity

• Merchants wanting to sell their snake oil to unsuspecting natives

• foreigners seeking to claim the land for their nations

At the heart of manifest destiny was the pervasive belief in American cultural and _

(a)  

True or False: A newspaper journalist named John O'Sullivan was the first American to establish a settlement out west of the Mississippi now known as St. Louis

• True

• False

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