Manifest Destiny Throughout The History Of America

Manifest destiny is an ideal that can be found throughout the history of America. From the discovery of Columbus in 1492 until today. The portion of our history that is affected the most by this is the expansion, and settling land, west from the original 13 colonies. Not only that, but it also helped shape how we treated other people and laws in relation to them. The Collins English Dictionary definition states that manifest destiny is “the belief that the US was a chosen land that had been allotted the entire North American continent by God.” This can be seen through events such as the Whitman Massacre, the prominence of slavery, and the expansion west. It took a long time to break this ideal from most of America, but it can still be found
These settlers, even though they had an immunity, still carried this disease around with them and when a Native American tribe came into contact with the people carrying these diseases, entire tribes were wiped out (Carpenter 108). People in this time period did not know much about how diseases worked, how they spread, or how to prevent them. Because of this, many americans assumed that this was the work of God punishing all people who were not white and that they were supposed to conquer the whole of
Slavery is an industry that started long before America was colonized and how we dealt with it is very similar to how we dealt with the American Indians. We thought that because everything was going so smoothly for us, colonizing America, we were naturally in the right. Therefore, our countrymen decided that they could do whatever they wanted to because white men were superior. As a Christian, I know full well that this is wrong and I am happy to say that brave men fought against the beliefs of slavery and won out. They thought it was our destiny to control everything that we saw because nothing bad was happening as a result of