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Maifest Destiny - Paper

Maifest Destiny

The technical definition of manifest destiny is to be ordained by god to do something. In the case of US history is was manifest destiny to move west and expand the boundaries of the early United States. Manifest destiny was an excuse and still is. People in the early United States need an excuse that what they were doing was right in order to help them sleep at night. That excuse was called manifest destiny. There are several examples in our history in which we implement manifest destiny not just once or twice but many times.
The Proclamation of 1763 when Great Britain promised the Native Americans that the colonists would not travel beyond the Appalachian Mountains. The problem was ...

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only time that we force the Native Americans to pick up and leave their land and homes either. In the end the Native Americans ended up on small reservations as apposed to the entire country that they had before.
The Louisiana Purchase was a hypocritical decision. Jefferson was portrayed the government as small and not in want of much land then he bought enough land to double the size of the early United States. Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; he bought the land from Napoleon for $15 million dollars.
The next major point in the manifest destiny’s history is the Lewis and Clark expeditions. These two people just wondered west proving that coast to coast trading was possible claiming land along the way. They started St. Louis May 14, 1804 and walked to Fort Clatsop, current day Organ December 8, 1805.
As history continued and continues we have and will use manifest destiny in order to do some absurd things that sounded reasonable at the time. There is no ...

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Added: 11/3/2005 12:49:58 PM
Category: World History
Type: Free Paper
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