The Manifests, a large group of American politicians in Congress from the end of the First America's War who advocated the expansion of the United States through diplomacy and, if necessary, military might. The Manifests succeeded in annexing Florida from Spain in 1834, and the creation of several new states for the Louisinaia Remainder Territory (all land east of 102° East of the original Louisiana Purchase in 1804). One of their biggest gambles was forcing President Daniel Webster to declare war on the Mexican Empire after the Massacre of the Alamo.