Meaning of manifest destiny and benevolent assimilation?

Answer 1

"Manifest" means "obvious".
"Destiny" means "fate" or "a predetermined course of events"

For many white Americans in the 19th century, particularly those in power, the fate of the aboriginal peoples was obvious - they must either get out of our way and give up their own way of life and become "civilised", or they will be destroyed. This was a politically neccessary policy, since the white population was growing so quickly that taking over land occupied by the tribes was inevitable.

"Benevolent assimilation" was a way of achieving this, by pretending that it was all for the natives' own good. They must be Christianised, educated, disciplined, turned into good citizens and taught to farm - in other words turned into third-class white people, but without any rights or say of their own.

What a way to treat anyone.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Benevolent Assimilation

Answer 4

Manifest Destiny is the historical belief that the United States was destined and divinely ordained by The God of Christianity to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes Manifest Destiny was interpreted so widely as to include the eventual absorption of all North America: Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Central America. It has also been used to advocate and justify other territorial acquisitions, as well as to justify the genocide of the Native American populations who were standing in the way of its believers and supporters. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only good, but that it was obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). Originally a political catch phrase of the 19th century, "Manifest Destiny" eventually became a standard historical term, sometimes used as a synonym for the expansion of the United States across the North American continent which the belief inspired or was used to justify. The term was first used primarily by Jacksonian Democrats in the 1840s to promote the annexation of much of what is now the Western United States (the Oregon Territory, the Texas Annexation, and the Mexican Cession). It was revived in the 1890s, this time with Republican supporters, as a theoretical justification for U.S. expansion outside of North America. The term fell out of usage by U.S. policy makers early in the 20th century, but some commentators believe that aspects of Manifest Destiny, particularly the belief in an American "mission" to promote and defend democracy throughout the world, continues to have an influence on American political ideology.

Answer 5

Manifest Destiny (noun)

the 19th-cent. doctrine postulating the continued territorial expansion of the U.S. as its obvious destiny: term current during the annexation of territories in the Southwest and Northwest and of islands in the Pacific and Caribbean

Benevolent Assimilation:
Benevolent Assimilation is a term coined in 1898 by President William McKinley justifying invading the Philippines.
Read it here- http://www.msc.edu.ph/centennial/benevolent.html

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Answer 7

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