The term “Manifest Destiny”, was an Imperialist phrase first used in 1845 to urge annexation

of Texas; used thereafter to encourage American settlement of European colonial and Indian

lands in the Great Plains and Far West. The American imperialists believed that the U.S

should expand its territory from the Atlantic all the way to the Pacific Ocean and even

beyond. “Manifest destiny” offered a moral justification as to why U.S needed a territorial

justification. Basically, It was an excuse for the greed and imperial ambitions for the

imaginative idea of what an enlarged United states could and should be.

James Folk’s presidency had its own fair share of successes and failures. He acquired several

territories including the states of Oregon, Texas and California hence making the U.S a

transcontinental nation. As a result, it caused a territorial crisis to determine how to divide the

land.

The white society in the old south were slave owners were divided into “good owner or bad

owner. The good owner was a southern gentleman, kind, had good morals and fatherly to

slaves. The bad owner had slave mistress, beats slaves, lazy, heartless and only cared about

money.

Slave rebellion was common in most parts of America. However the most The most serious

slave rebellion in the the colonial period which occurred in 1739 in South Carolina. 100

African Americans rose up, got weapons and killed several whites then tried to escape to S.

Florida. The uprising was crushed and the participants executed. The main form of rebellion

was running away, though there was nowhere to go.