Manifest Destiny??

Question

What was manifest destiny about. I have to do a long project about it but i cant find anything about it, and we havent studied it yet. My teacher wants us to learn to use different resources but all the websites explain it in a hundred paragraphs. Help Please!

Answer 1

Manifest Destiny was a term used in the 1840s to justify the United States' westward expansion into such areas as Texas, Oregon, and California. There was a widely held underlying belief that Americans, the "chosen people," had a divinely inspired mission to spread the fruits of their democracy to the less fortunate (usually meaning Native Americans and other non-Europeans).
The idea of an almost religious Manifest Destiny was a common staple in the speeches and newspaper articles of the time. Most of the exponents of expansion were Democrats, but some Whigs (and later Republicans) were also supporters.

Manifest Destiny was later applied to American interests in the Caribbean and the Pacific, sharing much with the practice of imperialism.

Critics, both at that time and today, saw the Manifest Destiny rationale as a thinly veiled attempt to put an acceptable face on taking lands from other peoples. Motives were often described as well-intentioned efforts to improve the lot of backward masses, but in truth the motivators were greed and control.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It was the assumption that God wanted the US to own all of North America.

The US got half of Mexico, but failed to annex Canada.


p.s. - LuciLill - Alaska was purchased from Russia, and it was a VERY unpopular decision at the time, so was not part of Manifest Destiny. Alaska's value was only discovered later.

Answer 4

Manifest Destiny was a dream of the US.. that is actually how they acquired Alaska... the original plan was to make all of north america part of the united states.alaska was purchased from britain for only a million dollars... thats all i know lol oh and thats what prompted the canadian confederation

Answer 5

manifest destiny is about americas god given right to take all the land on the continent which lead to the spanish american war.
and the gadsen purchase and the louisana purchase

Answer 6

Wholesale slaughter of Native Americans, perhaps? A group of hunters killing buffalo by the hundred. A picture of Andrew Jackson pointing west with an image of a newspaper quoting John B.L. Soule, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." in the background. Perhaps a map showing the various acquisitions of the US: Louisiana Purchase, Mexican Cession, Texas, etc.