17. 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 return the Louisiana Purchase.
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.
The United States had given away its land in the West to fulfill the goal of Manifest Destiny