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Philosophy of Manifest Destiny (Manifest Destiny (Istangible idelogy…
Philosophy of Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny
The philosophy that created a nation
Istangible idelogy
systematic body of concepts and bliefs that powered American life and American culture
Responsible for changing the face of American history
1845
the democratic leader John L.O'Sullivan gave the movement its name
Americans thought in early 1800 that they had a right to any land the wanted
Many people suggesting that America should assume the role as a world power
Incoportation into the Union was not inevitable but the most natural, right and proper thing in the world
History of Manifest Destiny
Movement was namen in 1845
1818 American military forces had moral reservations about the mehotds of Andrew Jackson in the Florida crisis. They soothed their consciences with a philiosophy which is today the Manifest Destiny.
Idea of Manifest Destiny is as old as America itself.
1822 James Monroe declared is idea that the rest of the world shout stay out of the Western Hemisphere
In the months after Spanish-American War, the idea of expansionism came up
Components of Manifest Destiny
Religious Influence
For some the Manifest Destiny Doctrine was based on the idea that America had a divine providence
America had a future that was destined by God
"It was the white man's burden to conquer and christianize the land"
A sense of a mission
they saw Manifest Destiny as the historical inevitability of American domination of North America
Altruistic way to extend American liberty
North West expansion started with the American fur trappers
With a sense of mission people were tempted by the boundless tracts
Manifest Destiny was the reason for the revived interest in territorial expansion
The dark side
Besides the good sides the Manifest Destiny also created dark sides in the American History
Plight of the American Indian
Belief that the white man had the right to destroy anything and anyone who got in the way