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Divine and Inevitable Destiny - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Observation: The writer says they won’t answer any questions or concerns about expanding west. Interpretation: This means they do not care about arguments against expansion. They think they are right and do not need to explain their actions.Connection, Causality: This connects because, as we learned in Unit 11, many Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, the idea that God wanted them to move west and own the land. Because they believed this, they did not think they needed to explain or defend taking land from others. This belief caused actions like the Indian Removal Act and the Mexican American War, because Americans felt they were naturally in the right. So, the belief (cause) that Americans deserved the land led to the effect of forcing Native Americans off their land and taking territory from Mexico.
    - - Erasure of Violence and Consequences
        
        observation: the author says that texas is now ours and already was before these words were written. interpretation: this is saying that the convention by her congress has ratified the acceptance of the invitation to the union and changed some things also. this helped me learn how congress passed laws and annexed states and territories. i am using causality because the war wtih mexico caused the annexation of texas.
        
        National Identity and Expansionism
        
        Observation: The author uses the term, Angelo Saxon repeatedly attributing the inexorable movement into California, not to the US government, but a specific racial and ethnic group. The tools of this army are listed as both civilizing forces and instruments of the force.
        Interpretation: This is a clear expression of racial nationalism, underlying manifest destiny. By labeling, the settlers Anglo Saxon O’Sullivan cast the expansion as a racial imperative, the natural destined triumph of a superior people and their institutions over them, imbecile and distractive Mexican governance. The inclusion of the rifle alongside the plough and institutions like school tacitly acknowledges that this is a process backed by political violence and conquest, but frames is conquest as inherently virtuous because it brings civilization to land otherwise stunted by Mexican rule.
        
        Naturalization of Conquest
        
        observation: if texas was populated by americans it it wasnt the governments fault it just happened. interpretation: this is saying that if texas is populated with americans instead of mexicans its not the governments fault that it happened. this helped me learn about how the war came about. i am using causality because the american population in texas wanted texas to become part of america
        
        Observation: O'sullivan presents the annexation of texas as inevitable and divinely allowed/destined. He then links the US population growth with the expansion of territory across the continent. He frames the process as part of a natural and unstoppable event .
        Interpretation: The Article is biased in favor of US expansion and justifying it morally as correct. This is seen in how O'sullivan suggests that the territorial growth is not just political but is also part of a divine plan which implies that any opposition towards it would be wrong and wouldn't work. Connection: This connects to the tertiary source and how it talks about how Manifest Destiny which argues that the US territorial expansion was seen as morally and historical cruical. Like O'sullivan frames expansion as inevitable, the tertiary source does this in how it justified the aquireing of texas and had little concern for the rights or sovereignty of other people. connecting the two with how the expansion was done with a "divine" or morally correct purpose.
        
        Observation: this line contains the first known appearance of the phrase manifest destiny imprint which would be a hugely influential concept in American history. The author, John L. O’Sullivan, a democratic journalist editor uses the phrase to argue that the annexation of Texas is not merely a political or territorial accusation, but divinely ordained, inevitable and righteous expansion of the United States across the North American continent.
        Interpretation: this is a powerful piece of nationalist and expansionist rhetoric that seeks to elevate the annexation debate from a partisan political dispute into a matter of high national purpose, and destiny. By framing expansion as both manifest and destiny O’Sullivan attempts to silence opposition. The phrase also suggests that the purpose of this expansion is to provide free development for the yearly multiplying millions connecting territorial growth directly to the population populations, growth, and perceived necessity for more land for an expanding republic.
        
        Observation: Texas people should now be patriotic to America
        This article tells the Texas people that they are no longer their own state and that they Belong to the US so they must show their love for the US. This is a change over time because if i remember correctly around the 1780 US states wanted to be independence but now we see that Texas has become apart of the US and seem fine with it.
        
        Observation: The writer says many Americans will move to California, and Mexico won’t be able to control it anymore. Interpretation: This means he believes Americans will just take over California naturally, and it will become separate from Mexico without anyone needing to force it.
        Connection (Change Over Time): This connects to Unit 11 because over time, control of California changed. At first, California belonged to Mexico, but as more Americans moved west, they believed the land should be theirs. This caused the land to slowly shift from Mexican control to U.S. control. The quote shows this change happening as Americans moved in and took over.
        
        Observation: The writer says California will probably stop being part of Mexico because Mexico is weak and can’t control it.
        Interpretation: This means the writer believes the U.S. should take California, and he is acting like Mexico has no power or right to keep it.