Manifest destiny paper

Use the below information to write a 6-page research paper on the Transcontinental Railroad and its effects on Manifest Destiny. This will be added to 4 other research papers to create a 25-page research paper on Manifest Destiny.

THIS RESEARCH PAPER IS ONLY REGARDING THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD AND MANIFEST DESTINY.

Transcontinental Railroad Outline:

Building of the Transcontinental Railroad (Primary source #4)
Movement of people and goods in relation to the American Industrial Revolution (see secondary source #7)
National Railways of Mexico and American Railroad Unions (see secondary source #2)
Mexican railroad workers and the American Railroad (see secondary source #3), also applicable to immigrants

Thesis:

While the idea of an American Manifest Destiny took the better part of a century to come to fruition and maturity, it is so pivotally rooted on the Industrial Revolution, Transcontinental Railroad, and immigrants that without any of these it would never have been realized.

Introduction:

While the idea of an American Manifest Destiny took the better part of a century to come to fruition and maturity, it is so pivotally rooted on the Industrial Revolution, Transcontinental Railroad, and immigrants that without any of these it would never have been realized. The popular editor and columnist John Louis O’Sullivan says, “… in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”(7) And thus, the term “Manifest Destiny” was coined as the motivator of wars, dreams and the God given right of freedom.