Neo Manifest Destiny: “the belief common in America in the early 2000s that it was the destiny or fate of the US to expand into the Middle East. For many Americans, the belief had an almost religious intensity, and was often considered an obvious part of God’s plan for America’s future. It was with this feeling that settlers pushed into Islamic-controlled lands, confident that they were justified in doing whatever was necessary to spread the American flag and system of government.”
Does this sound familiar? Manifest Destiny is “the belief common in America in the early 1800s that it was the destiny or fate of the US to expand west to the Pacific Ocean. For many Americans, the belief had an almost religious intensity, and was often considered an obvious part of God’s plan for America’s future. It was with this feeling that settlers pushed west into Indian and Mexican controlled lands, confident that they were justified in doing whatever was necessary to spread the American flag and system of government.”
Definitions of manifest destiny on the Web:
* a political philosophy common among American statesman and business leaders in the nineteenth century that held that United States was destined to, or deserved to, conquer the heart of North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
www3.newberry.org/k12maps/glossary/
* the policy pursued by the United States during the mid-nineteenth century, under which they intended to take posession of the entire North American continent.
www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/metis-de/vocab-e.html
* the belief common in America in the early 1800s that it was the destiny or fate of the US to expand west to the Pacific Ocean. For many Americans, the belief had an almost religious intensity, and was often considered an obvious part of God’s plan for America’s future. It was with this feeling that settlers pushed west into Indian and Mexican controlled lands, confident that they were justified in doing whatever was necessary to spread the American flag and system of government.
www.fasttrackteaching.com/termsgrowing.html
* Belief of the government of the United States that it was destined to rule the continent from coast to coast; led to annexation of Texas and Mexican-American War. (p. 767)
occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/stearns_awl/medialib/glossary/gloss_M.html
* an idea popular during the 1840s stating it was the right and duty of the United States to expand its boundaries
www.doe.nv.gov/standards/standss/history-standards/histgloss.html
* The belief that the United States was destined to extend from sea to sea so that it could bring the blessings of liberty to the entire continent. The westward expansion was also seen as a moral obligation to enlarge the area of freedom, thereby keeping the lands from falling to a tyrant.
www.li.suu.edu/library/humtxt/glossary/glossary.htm
* a policy of imperialism rationalized as inevitable (as if granted by God)
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Manifest Destiny was a nineteenth century belief that the United States had a divinely-inspired mission to expand, particularly across the North American frontier towards the Pacific Ocean. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny
