Manifest Destiny #10 by Chris Dingess5/11/2023 ![]() History now knows that, it was more than just superior Americans moving around and teaching lessons. At this juncture, the best decision readers can take is to ponder and question the destinies of the inferior ones.Americans were so sure of their cultural identity, and they never left any stone unturned in their quest to introduce democratic and economic principles to the so-called unlucky inferior nations. They wholeheartedly believed that it was their God-given destiny to bring people of other races out the “darkness”. The reason was simple – those who considered themselves “superior Americans” felt that their victims were primitive people who ought to be enlightened. In a show of power, the early American settlers messed with the livelihood and territories of Hispanics (people of Spanish origins) and American Indians (Native Americans). The origins, meaning and major facts surrounding the Manifest Destiny can be found as follows: Meaning and Overview of Manifest Destiny ![]() ![]() With this expansionist mindset, the early post-independent Americans crisscrossed the continent and exercised their powers over the so-called “ inferior nations” and tribes. had to expand its territories westward and dominate the entire of North America. ![]() ![]() Therefore, many Americans held the belief that the U.S. Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century American ideology which stated that the US was destined (by the Almighty God) to be a powerful nation. ![]()
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