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This 3 page paper looks at the idea of manifest destiny from the end of the American Civil War (1865) through the end of the Great Depression, usually identified as approximately 1941 and America's entry into the Second World War. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and to spread its form of democracy and freedom" (Manifest destiny, 2005). Its most usually associated with the years from approximately 1815 to 1860, the time of the physical
expansion of the American nation from Atlantic to Pacific. This paper looks at the idea of manifest destiny from the end of the American Civil War (1865) through the
end of the Great Depression, usually identified as approximately 1941 and Americas entry into the Second World War. Discussion If the "Age of Manifest Destiny" was 1815-1860, then how
does the concept apply to later American history? The clue lies in the phrase "spread its form of democracy and freedom" and in this remark: "In addition to territorial
expansionism, the term also encompassed notions of individualism, idealism, American exceptionalism, nationalism, and a belief in the inherent greatness of what was then called the "Anglo-Saxon race" (Manifest destiny, 2005).
A historian named William Weeks noted three "key themes" that were usually associated with the doctrine of manifest destiny: first, the idea that Americans are a virtuous people and
so are their institutions; second, that because these institutions are "virtuous" they should be spread, "thereby redeeming and remaking the world in the image of the U.S."; and third, that
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it needed to become involved in various wars and interventions all over
the world. It was President Madison who argued "that the only way to sustain a republican government was to provide a surplus of resources and social space" (Williams).
This thinking has come down to us in our need for "growth," which we consider "necessary to avoid class conflict and to provide for population growth" (Williams). (We
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