Question: Was Manifest Destiny a crime against Native Americans?
Thesis:Manifest Destiny was a beautiful dream about power, expansion,and glory which soon became reality but also was a crime against Native Americans because for them it represent genocide and injustice.
Manifest Destiny was a dream about power, expansion, and glory. No doubt for a young and successful country as was United Estates in the beginning the idea of expand the country towards the west coast was a dream, a dream which for they would fight to make it a reality even if that means violating the rights of other people or in this case of other cultures. This is ironic because the the United States of …show more content…
At this point it is not necessary to say that the native Americans suffered a great injustice thanks to the manifest destiny but if the snatch of their lands was not enough neither the being forced to move still they lacked much to cross or in this case to suffer.Once the lands rapt what is what followed? Perhaps would be deprive them of their independence by putting them in federal reserves? Or take their children, their clothes and all their beliefs to be molded to white man's society and when they grew up they could be farmers? What would you say if were both? now if it is unfair. The government of the United States tried to mold the Native Americans as a white man due that they thought that they were helping and this was the only way to save them.Not everything was bad thanks to Dawes Act in the year 1887 that had the purpose to divide the land in allotments and to assign them to the native Americans to another of this would be given to citizenship of the United States provided they accepted the law.
In conclusion Manifest destiny was great dream and progress to this nation who was full of hope to see all they can do but they did not think in all the consequences for the Native Americans as like diseases, almost all the loss of their culture and whether it was fair or