Expansionists in general:
-believed in extending ‘freedom'
-Manifest Destiny
-God wanted them to have the land
-usually a ‘smoke screen' for hiding the want to expand slavery
-Wanted land: California, Texas, Oregon
-many expansionists blamed the post-1837 depression on the U.S. not acquiring markets for its agriculture surplus, having California and Oregon could solve problem
-Many expansionists thought that with expansion agriculture could grow and protect democracy
-believed that industrialization was the cause for social strife
-with more land, farmers would have more opportunity and have access to foreign markets
-would open up economic opportunity for the common people

Thomas Jefferson:
-expansion would favor the common people
-believed that that it was the American people's right to displace uncivilized or European people from the path of their westward movement
-feared that overexpansion would possibly create an ungovernable empire
-Jefferson proposed an......

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