The Evolution of Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny was the idea that it was America’s destiny to spread across the entire continent of North America. It was started by a group of expansionist called the Young American Movement and they were affiliated with the Democratic Party. By their idea, America was able to double its size and obtain new land from Mexico and Britain. However, this also caused pain to the Native Americans. In the end, America obtained new land, and its people achieved what they believed to be their God given right to expand and move west.

Manifest Destiny is a term coined by John L. Sullivan in 1845 when talking about the annexation of Texas. He believed, along with other expansionists, that it’s inevitable that the US population would spread across North America because the land is given by Providence to the United States and that it’s natural that the land should be part of the country [Doc 1]. The idea of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny had positive and negative effects on the politics, society and the economics of the United States and

In 1961 the worst war ever fought by America had just started. The Vietnamese of the north also known as the Viet Cong had invaded the south to take control of the entire country. America and other democratic countries felt the spread of communism to this country would be a stepping-stone for other communistic countries around the world, also known as the Domino Effect. America, as cocky as they were, invaded Vietnam to help the southern Vietnamese. Although America is one of the most powerful countries in the world, it extremely underestimated the dedication of their enemy. Backed by China and the USSR, the Viet Cong were a determined and very tough enemy. The Vietnam War as a whole was a terrible act by the US government. Vietnam was

Communism as a political philosophy has had both its critics and nationalist proponents throughout recent history. As a tool for nationalistic movements in recent, one of the most compelling examples is how communism was introduced and used by Ho Chi Minh to help Vietnam become a unified and independent nation in the 1970s. Ho Chi Minh, a Marxist Leninist, charismatic and populist leader, adopted communism through his experiences, struggles, and challenges. Communism came to play an important role in bringing Vietnam independence and freedom from the French and subsequent colonialist rulers. Ho Chi Minh used communist to help the Vietnamese develop feelings of patriotism and nationalism toward the country. Ho Chi Minh created several

Industrialization of the United States was in full swing by the 1840s. Which evidenced that the continued expansion of the states was an issue and the idea of a Manifest Destiny was of major importance. John L. O’Sullivan once stated, “Our Manifest Destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions” (America: A Narrative History). The idea of a Manifest Destiny originated in the 1840s by the Anglo-Saxon Colonists to expand their ideal civilization and institutions across North America to become a super nation. There were conflicts during this expansion, but they only led to major successes that molded the states into the superior country it is today. The Manifest

Manifest Destiny was the belief that Providence, or God, wanted them to persevere in their journey to conquer the continent. They took it very seriously and while their determination did shape the U.S. into what it is today, using it as an excuse for invading land was unacceptable. In Charles Sumner's "Objections to the Mexican-American War", Sumner wrote, "Our newspapers excited the lust of territorial robbery in the public mind...Certainly [Mexico]...might justly charge our citizens with disgraceful robbery," which proves how Manifest Destiny was used to their advantage, to drive citizens to fiercely fight for the wrong cause. This idea turned America into a land of citizens crazed with the idea of expanding the U.S. from sea to shining sea similar to Britain's ideas of owning the world. However, wasn't this the very thing we were trying to escape a little less than a century

The term "Manifest Destiny," which American writer John L. O'Sullivan first used in the New York Democratic Review in 1845. , describes what most 19th-Century Americans believed was their God-given mission to expand westward, occupy a continental nation, and extend U.S. constitutional government to unenlightened peoples. The idea was the driving force behind the rapid expansion of America into the West from the East, and it was heavily promoted in newspapers, posters, and through other mediums. While the Manifest Destiny was not itself an official government policy, it had a critical impact on the foreign policy of the U.S. and encouraged Westward colonization, territorial acquisition, and American

Manifest Destiny is the term used when describing the United States’ expansion in the mid-nineteenth century, but it’s ideological origins go back to the Puritans first arriving in the new world. Manifest Destiny was the idea that it was God’s wish for the United States to span from ocean to ocean (Introduction). This idea of Manifest Destiny was not only an ideological belief but also a political one; expansion of the United States was brought forth from war and the ousting of Native Americans.

Manifest Destiny is a term coined in the 1840s. It meant that the United States could, and was destined to, have all the land from coast to coast. The term “Manifest Destiny” was first used in an article by John O’Sullivan in 1845. O’Sullivan stated in his article “our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.” This sentiment helped to fuel additional western settlement in the Oregon territory, increased desire to annex Texas, and war with Mexico. United States President Polk was a supporter of Manifest Destiny. Consequently, his presidency aw the greatest territorial expansion to dare.

Manifest Destiny was a term that originated during the 1840’s. “It expressed the belief that it was Anglo-Saxon Americans’ providential mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the breadth of North America”(History.com Staff, 2010, p. 2). Manifest Destiny and the attitude that generated it helped to fuel western settlement, the war on mexico and the removal and displacement of Native Americans (History.com Staff, 2010). Colonists were afraid that the US would

One of the largest and wealthiest countries in the world is no other than the United States of America, who has gone through countless changes in its long living history. Since winning its independence from Great Britain to current day, America has transformed intensely and continues to change over time. The term "Manifest Destiny” first created in the 1840s, has assisted the American drive into the next century and has made the country what it is currently. The ideas behind Manifest Destiny played a significant part in the development of the United States by permitting the territorial expansion of the 1800s. Devoid of the expansion era, America wouldn’t possess nearly all of the western part of the country.

On the one hand, some Americans believed that the doctrine of manifest destiny was founded on the idea that United States of America had divine providence and frugality. In their wisdom, they believed God had destined Americans to limitlessly expand the American territory, conquer, Christianize, wield control and populate as they deemed necessary. On the other hand, a section of pro manifest destiny viewed it as the historical inevitability of United States’ dominance of North America from coast to coast.

The Vietnam War began in the year 1954, after the ascension to power of Ho Chi Minh, who was a communist leader in North Vietnam. The leader was spreading communism, and because the United States wanted to stop the spread, it sent military troops to aid South Vietnamese to stop this vice. The war saw about 3million people die with the inclusion of 58,000 American soldiers. About 150,000 people were wounded during the war. In 1975, South Vietnamese government surrendered the war after the communist forces forced them to surrender. Vietnam unified communism and became a Socialist Republic. Although decades have passed since the occurrence of the Vietnam war, the American culture, which was partly born as a result of this war, is celebrated

The Manifest Destiny was the name given to the Anglo-American (white) expansion into the West. The Manifest Destiny was based on an idea that white Americans were superior people who believed in God. Americans were to populate North America “sea to shining sea” and spread the religion of Christianity. The Manifest Destiny displayed American’s confidence. Americans moved west for more land, the Manifest Destiny also uplifted American’s freedom and democracy. And it encouraged independence. The United States used the Manifest Destiny to start a war with Mexico from1846 until 1848. The Manifest Destiny communicated American claims to western lands, at once highlighting the nation’s superiority and offering a solution to national anxieties. Ironically, the new territories exacerbated sectional divisions and caused the civil war (Bailey et al., 2015, p 319, and Hardesty 2015).

Around the same time, the Vietnam War began adjacent to Cambodia between communist North Vietnam and anti-communist South Vietnam, who were allied with the United States. North Vietnam sent supplies to their guerilla army in South Vietnam by way of the Ho Chi Minh trail which passed through Cambodia. So, United States president Richard Nixon and his advisor Kissinger decided to secretly bomb the Ho Chi Minh trail in Cambodia to cut off supplies for North Vietnam forces. However, the bombing mainly affected Cambodia and had disastrous results, as it destroyed much of the agricultural areas in Cambodia.