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Territories acquired during manifest destiny
; Americans began to settle in Texas and thought of themselves as Americans, so Texas (voluntarily) asked to be annexed by America (Spain didn't like that) . Texas annexation. Reading and Writing Mexico as territory worth acquiring. At the. chapter to help you learn more about how Manifest Destiny led to western expansion. Manifest Destiny, in U.S. history, the supposed inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States westward to the . Before the American Civil War (–65), the idea of Manifest Destiny was used to validate continental acquisitions in the Oregon Country, Texas, New Mexico, and California. Manifest Destiny, in U.S. history, the supposed inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States westward to the Pacific and beyond. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War in , added an additional , square miles of U.S. territory, including all or parts of what is now California, Arizona. It was used to promote the annexations of Mexican territory acquired in the Mexican-American War, of territory in . Other applications of the notion of manifest destiny were soon found. Keywords: New Mexico; Manifest destiny; Colonialism; Land grants; Law. acquired by commercial interests during a period of intense land speculation.