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This 6 page paper explores the concept and how the United States changed between 1812 and 1860 as a result. Ideology, as well as specific events, are discussed. The California gold rush is examined. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Additionally, approximately 20,000 Native Americans and 2,000 Yankee frontiersmen, soldiers, and settlers lived there (2000). But things would change dramatically as if a wave came rolling across the North
American continent to alter the character of this large, long piece of land forever. Within two years time, thousands of Easterners poured into the region (2000). By the time
1850 rolled around, there were more than 100,000 immigrants who invaded what is now known as the state of California (2000). California, at the time the gold rush started, was
not a state. Like many other territories on the northern American continent, it was captured and drawn into the great United States. Citizens of the U.S. believed that it was
an honor to be a part of their new nation. They thought they had every right to expand aggressively. What gave them that right? How could the nation be so
arrogant as to think they could seize lands from peoples and effectively take over their lives, and be applauded for it? The Americans did expand with an almost religious fervor
under the ideology known as manifest destiny. Stephanson (1995) explores the meaning of manifest destiny as it pertains to the the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Clearly, the author expands on
an old concept, and the meaning changes from what was the original intent. The author also looks at the concept with a focus on certain decades in the nineteenth century.
He in addition takes a decided view on how religion affected the manifest destiny concept and vice versa. Williams (1999) notes that in the United States, despite the language of
the promised land and policies of manifest destiny, a voluntary reading of the covenant along with uninhabited land, had emphasized the importance of individual consent at the expense of territorialism
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