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1. What was Manifest Destiny and explain how it fueled the political agenda and/or
economic enterprises that took place on the Borderlands between the U.S. and
Mexico.
Manifest Destiny was termed by John O’Sullivan in 1845 to mark the summit or peak of
the expansionism. According to Gonzalez (2000), Manifest Destiny replaced the “America for
the Americans” slogan of the Monroe doctrine and advocated for further expansion into Latin
America across the North America region. It used violence to depict imperialism and racism in
U.S and Mexico. In the Manifest Destiny, the Caucasian race was deemed as superior from all
perceptions, while the Latin Americans were perceived to be inferior in their cultural structure as
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