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Project 2
  • By Austin Keating, Santiago Gutierrez, and Sam
    Spears

2
Question
  • Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as
    a benevolent movement, it was in fact an
    aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of
    others.
  • Assess the validity of this statement with
    specific references to American expansionism in
    the 1840s.

3
Thesis
  • Manifest destiny is the idea that that America
    deserves and has every right to take over all the
    land. It was imperialism because they were taking
    the land away from the Native Americans and
    eventually toke land from mexico. They were
    hostile towards Native Americans and during the
    civil war the north and the south were both
    struggling to maintain power over each other,
    land was a key factor.

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Manifest destiny
  • Manifest Destiny is an intangible ideology that
    created American history. In its simplest form,
    Manifest Destiny can be defined as, "A Movement."
    More specifically, it would be the systematic
    body of concepts and beliefs that powered
    American life and American culture.
  • Manifest Destiny reflected both the prides that
    characterized American Nationalism in the mid
    19th century, and the idealistic vision of social
    perfection through God and the church.
  • Manifest destiny was a justification for
    expansion and western movement, or, in some
    interpretations, an ideology or doctrine that
    helped to promote the process of civilization.

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Manifest Destiny continued
  • "Without Manifest Destiny, phrases and terms such
    as "Beyond the Great American Desert," "The North
    West Passage," and "The Oregon Trail", would be
    just empty examples of white man's travels."
  • Herman Melville, an American novelist, addresses
    the perils that underlay the soaring ambition and
    aggressiveness of the new age. The whaling
    captain Ahab, who brings his own demise and the
    destruction of his own ship by his own relentless
    pursuit of the white whale.-- this symbolizes,
    among others-- the dangers facing a nation that
    was overreaching itself by indulging its pride
    and exalted sense of destiny with too little
    concern for the moral and practical consequences

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Mexican American war
  • The Mexican American war also know as the Mexican
    war, was an armed conflict between the united
    states and Mexico from 1846-1848 in the wake of
    the 1845 U.S. annexation from Texas. Mexico still
    considered Texas part of their country despite
    the 1836 Texas revolution.
  • The war with Mexico was just one of a series of
    aggressive acts that can be tied to America's
    manifest destiny. Manifest destiny emerged
    naturally out of the fundamental need and want to
    explore, conquer new land, and establish borders.
    With this growth came moral, cultural, social
    ideological and economic differences between
    people, states, and countries.

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Native Americans
  • Manifest destiny had serious consequences for
    native Americans, since continental expansion for
    America toke place heavily on Native America
    soil.
  • The age of manifest destiny came to be associated
    with extinguishing Americans Indian territorial
    claims and removing them to reservations. An
    example of this would be Jackson's indian removal
    act of 1830 which best correlates to the trail of
    tears where thousands of Indians died on a
    treacherous forced relocation.

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Civil war
  • The civil war could also be considered an
    aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of
    others because of the enormous amount of
    casualties caused by the issue of land.
  • The civil war was entirely fought over the
    South's secession. If the south seceded than many
    others could have succeeded as well causing a
    massive loss of land for the U.S.
  • Manifest destiny therefor is the reason that
    Lincoln could not have stood the loss of land and
    toke any and all measures to ensure he didn't,
    even if that meant the deaths of hundreds of
    thousands.

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Conclusion
  • In conclusion Manifest destiny was an aggressive
    imperialism pursued at the expense of others
    which is shown by each of the following, the
    Mexican American war, the Indian removal act of
    1830, and the civil war.
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