220; our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by providence for the development of our yearly multiplying millions” (Zinn pg.149) As the U.S grew in population, land grew scarce and the growing colonial elite government looked toward the west as an answer. Mexico which is now populated with a new people called Mestizo of Spanish and Aztec blood, and a smaller population was that of pure Spanish blood who considered themselves socially superior. The Mestizos rebelled frequently, as a result the country was at a state of chaos with very little unity and was very thinly populated, and already weakened by an oppressive clergy and upper class. In an attempt to populate their under populated Texas frontier with the United States they encouraged migration with the promise to become practicing Catholics and obey the Mexican prohibition of slavery. They thought this would build the nation they struggled to. This was a huge mistake, they had no intention of keeping the promise. “ These mostly southern Americans who migrated to Texas were drawn pure and simple by lure of land and no other reason.”(Leckie pg. 503) Even worse they had already caught the expansionist fever. These actions widened the eyes of opportunity of the U.S. colonial elite and in a sense paved the path to the idea of their manifest destiny. For they believed in a natural right as moral rational for their expansion. “ The law of God and nature” ( Weinberg pg. 15 ) – dictated by god to provide new land at who’s ever grievance. To contrast these ideologies,“The U.S. elected Polk and the Democrats in the national election of 1844. The Democrats platform promised “ Re annexation of Texas” and the “ Re occupation of Oregon.” In choosing the Democrats, the nation endorsed goals of “ Manifest Destiny” (Klose pg.61). The morality of the U.S. belief “which had long held that the w...
