In the 1840s, the United State looked West to expand. The North wanted Free
Soil; the South wanted new lands for slave states. Democrats and Whigs both
advocated for expansion, but they did not always agree on how to do it. John L.
O'Sullivan named territorial expansion, Manifest Destiny. Using his essay, The
Democratic Principle, define what Manifest Destiny means. What problem was it
to solve? How did Manifest Destiny influence John Polk's Inaugural Address and
presidency? Does this idea lead to the Texas Annexation and the Mexican War?

Iam told that hundreds if not thousands of these (armenians) were sent at once to the front ranks at the dardanelles, where death in a very short space of time is almost a certainty. the older men were then deported into the interior, while the women and children, when not carried off in an opposite direction, were left to shift for themselves as best they could. the terrible feature of this deportation up to date is that it has been carried out on such a basis as to render it practically impossible in thousands of cases that these families can ever again be reunited. not only wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, but even mothers and their little children have been dispersed in such a manner as to preclude practically all hope that they will ever see each other again. according to this excerpt, what does the author consider to be the worst part of the deportation during the armenian genocide?