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Ideology of Manifest Destiny

Bibliography

Consequences continued

Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty: An American History. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012.

Reynolds, David S. Waking Giant: America In The Age Of Jackson. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.

Native Americans

  • Forced Removal
  • Forced assimilation
  • Conflict and massacres

Thomas Lueck

Consequences

Racial Aspect

  • Annexation of Texas
  • Settlement of Oregon
  • Mexican War
  • acquiring California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah

Territorial expansion came to be seen as proof of innate superiority of the "Anglo-Saxon race"

Beyond Expansion

Manifest Destiny

Purpose

Manifest Destiny not only meant spearding the country from ocean to ocean, but also the speard of freedom and liberty.

  • John L. O'Sullivan coined the phrase in 1840
  • Definition: The United States had a Divinely appointed mission, so obvious as to be beyond dispute, to occupy all of North America.

note several defintions exist

Manifest Destiny was used as a means of justification for the expansion movement

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