Summary: The Ideology Of Manifest Destiny

In my opinion, the ideology of Manifest Destiny did shape the lives of ordinary Americans who traveled and settled the West. Americans invoke divine providence, national superiority, and Exceptionalism. Additionally, it expressed both national political objectives and the goals of ordinary men and women who settled the West. However, the start of settling in the West was not an expeditious process. Since there was no imperial power that had yet reach any political or military control over the large part of the continent. But when the Civil War hit the United States industrialization and rails had expanded the population and that the slavery was removed from the West. Around the mid-1840s, migrants from the eastern states begun to settle in