The famous phrase "Manifest Destiny" was invented by a journalist in 1844. The idea of ​​Manifest Destiny was that the people of the East had a divine, God-given right to settle in the west. God placed the land there to be conquered, and so the immigrants answered His call by expanding westward. My belief is that Manifest Destiny was a necessary evil. The idea of ​​Manifest Destiny expanded the West and provided homes and jobs. but on the other side of the coin Manifest Destiny drove the Native Americans from their lands and continued to push them further and further west. In the year 1843, the stage was set for the Great Migration. During the 1840s, westward expansion began. People living in the crowded east were lured west with the promise of cheap land and open space. Thousands of people gathered in Missouri, to embark on a journey that would take more than nine months and nearly two thousand miles to complete. There were more cows and buffalo on the trail than people, and most emigrants traveled only with a small farm wagon stocked with supplies. Many of these brave travelers were farmers...