What is a good definition of manifest destiny???

Answer 1

Manifest destiny: A policy of imperialistic expansion defended as necessary or benevolent.
often Manifest Destiny The 19th-century doctrine that the United States had the right and duty to expand throughout the North American continent.

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Answer 3

Manifest Destiny was a phrase that expressed the belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean; it has also been used to advocate for or justify other territorial acquisitions. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only good, but that it was obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). It was originally a political catch phrase or slogan used by Democrats in the 1845-1855 period, and rejected by Whigs and Republicans of that era. Manifest Destiny was an explanation or justification for that expansion and westward movement, or, in some interpretations, an ideology or doctrine which helped to promote the process. This article is a history of Manifest Destiny as an idea, and the influence of that idea upon American expansion.

Answer 4

Manifestation Miracle Live Your Dreams!

Answer 5

Manifest Destiny is the phrase used to justify the appropriation of large areas of North America, based on the rather shoddy reasoning that "God meant us to have this land," entirely ignoring the fact that there were already people living on it.

Answer 6

Taking over property that doesn't belong to you; ignoring the rights of the people already living on the land; and paying a foreign country 6 million dollars for land it never owned in the first place.

Answer 7

The USA's need to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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Answer 8

Free-will is what you choose which is limited according to one's karma(action). Pious karma leads to happiness. Impious karma gives misery and suffering. Even while suffering or enjoying one can create fresh good or bad karma and consequently enjoy or suffer. Creating fresh karma is within one's free will. For instance, if one is flying in a airplane from New York to Delhi, the destination is fixed. He can do nothing about changing that karma he created which is going to Delhi. But, he exercise his free will in Airplane and execute some actions like sleeping, reading, watching movie etc. . . which in turn creates another result .

John Nordheimer: Is that preordained, or is it by free choice?

Prabhupada: Free choice. What is preordained? You are here of your free choice. If you like, you can sit down and talk with me, and if you don't like, then you can go. That is your free choice. Free choice makes destiny; if I act in goodness, then my future is good. And if I act badly, my future is bad. That is destiny. Man is the architect of his own destiny. If you are educated, your future is nice, and if you remain foolish, then your future is bad. Future destiny depends on present action. This life is an opportunity to make the next life, and if we behave like human beings, then in our next life we will go back home, back to Godhead. But if we behave like animals, then in the next life we will take animal bodies. That's all. All this is very nicely described in Bhagavad-gita. The conclusion is that human beings are meant for understanding God, but if we waste our time understanding dog, and if we become attached to dog, then we will become dogs in our next life. And if we are attached to God, we become like God, in our next life. The choice is ours.

Answer 9

Kevin M is correct, and additionally, it involved the belief that because they had GOD on their side, they had the right to take and build whatever they wanted to expand his kingdom.

Answer 10

To choose and create your own destiny. Its the ability to make decisions that god gave us.