Ironically, the majority of the blood shed during this period was that of the Native American. Many of them had to defend themselves against the well-armed United States army. Americans had a vision of social perfection that left no room for anyone with brown skin. Long gone was the intention of sharing the supposed intellectual superiority with other “less-advanced” races. The Americans had gotten their land and that was all they were concerned with. They believed that it was God’s will to make good use of the land they had found themselves blessed with. Using God as the justification for all of this brutality, it seemed they forgot that Christianity preaches that God is the God of all and for all. The only Destiny that the Americans were concerned with manifesting was their own.

Manifest Destiny was a direct result of the combination of American nationalism and a vision of social perfection. Inflamed by publication in the penny press papers and the rhetoric of soapbox politicians, its ideology was based in politics. As with all political issues, there were different opinions as to what Manifest Destiny truly meant. For some expansion was limited to just wanting to settle the west. Others wanted the west and beyond. Some Americans wanted to United States to include Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands. A few even expected to become a nation similar to the former Roman Empire, controlling the entire known world. There was also the issue of how the goal of western expansion should be accomplished. Many American believed in a gradual, peaceful assimilation of native people into white American society. A minority believed that a swift forceful takeove

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