Why did Americans feel that the Mexican Cession and Gadsden Purchase fulfilled the goals of Manifest Destiny?
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• It allowed the United States to collect $18 million in property taxes from Mexico
• The United States had extended its land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which was the goal of Manifest Destiny.
• It allowed the United States to retur the Louisiana Purchase
• The United States had given away its land in the West to fulfill the goal of Manifest Destiny