The Role Of Manifest Destiny In The United States

Global expansion was a rife endeavor during the eighteenth century as a means for larger cotton cultivation, the possibility of acquiring gold, and an increase in slavery. The complex undertaking soon became a simple one through the widely held belief of Manifest Destiny. The notion of Manifest Destiny was that the settlers of the United States were fated to expand across the country as a result of their Anglo-Saxon heritage and the inherent obligation to advance their convictions westward. While this ideology did not definitively state of a racial superiority, it was quickly realized through the various actions that different minorities faced. Conversations about race were implicit in Manifest Destiny because the belief allowed for the removed of the Cherokee Indians from their land in Georgia and the annexation of Texas from Mexico which led to explicit forms of racism presented throughout the Civil War.
In the first place, conversations about race were implicit in Manifest Destiny because the belief allowed for the removal of the Cherokee Indians from their land in Georgia. In their, Memorial of the Cherokee Nation, the
Again, the Cherokee Indians note that, "we have received as an inheritance from our fathers, who possessed it from time immemorial, as a gift from our common father in heaven.” (Memorial 2) This Cherokee tribe even went as far to declare that they were born from the same man, essentially cut from the same cloth. Over the years, the Cherokee nation had assimilated into American culture and thus, truly believed that they would eventually be equal inhabitants of the land. Overall, the Manifest Destiny ideology provided a flawed logic for completely decimating an indigenous group because it was what God destined through Anglo-Saxon