Manifest+Destiny


 * Related to the Monroe Doctrine and its use of force to stop any interference
 * It was developed in the 1830s
 * Its main idea was that the Americans had a duty to spread white Anglo-Saxon civilisation and Christianity throughout the country
 * It was considered to be their 'destiny' and 'mission'
 * The takeover of Native American land, annexation of Texas and war with Mexico over the independence of California was justified
 * The US had a responsibility to spread its civilisation to less advanced nations, esspecially in the Pacific and Far East
 * //'To teach old nations a new civilizaiton - to confirm the destiny of the human race...'// - Journalist William Gilpin
 * //'He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the redemption of the world' - Albert J// Beveridge, speech to the US senate, 1900.