A time period that ranges from the 1800’s to 1850’s is known as a tremendous changing time for our young country of America. These changes included the Social Reform Era, Manifest Destiny, Industrialization, and Urbanization. Changes like these took huge effect on American History. Without knowing and understanding these aspects it is very difficult to know how the development of America worked. It is important to realize that events like these let America unravel into a valuable long lasting country. Among the 1820’s and 30’s the Social Reform Era took charge throughout the nation. This era declared change for women, Native Americans and African Americans (Document K) since free white males had conquered political suffrage for themselves. The rest of America’s population was left ignored and neglected. To avoid this unwanted discrimination, the Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements were created. These movements put into perspective how MANY Americans were unable to vote and ignored (Document J). Through the years, African American and …show more content…
The Manifest Destiny was a belief that the United States’ fate was to reach from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean (Document A). At the point in time when it was created, America was in fact not that large yet. Manifest Destiny created perseverance throughout all of America and Americans did all in their power to retrieve the land that touched the Pacific (Document C). We basically turned into bullies just to salvage a most likely fake belief. Even though the United States did go to war with Mexico and Europe for most of the land: Native Americans suffered the most. Every time they were kicked out of their land so Americans could settle it would happen again with their new land. Overall the Manifest Destiny was just some nationalism bully fueling belief and was only positive in which people then permanently migrated
Julie Chavez Hist 120 Tues & Thurs 4:45-6:10 Question 7: How did Manifest Destiny change the geography and culture of the west of Northern American? In your opinion who suffered the most do to Manifest Destiny? The Manifest Destiny change the geography and culture of the west of Northern America starting with Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase which brought in colonization and the gold rush. The gold rush brought a huge impact to the geography of Northern America because people would then mine into river searching for gold.
The manifest Destiny is a nineteenth-century belief that the United States were destined to expand west across the North America continent. In which they would claim the land, and spread their form of freedom, culture, and democracy. Many believed the mission was inspired to them by god, while others felt it was more of a selfless right to expand the territory of liberty. This mission led Americans to move and develop the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny is the belief of the nineteenth century that America was destined by God to expand westward. The author of Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis believed that God established Anglo-Saxons as the superior people whose purpose was to spread Christianity. (Doc B) This idea of spreading a superior culture or religion has been a motive for expansion for decades before this. Despite this support for expansionism, there were those who were against it.
If you are like me you do not know what manifest destiny but after this essay you will know just like I do. Manifest Destiny is a nineteenth century American belief that people had the right to expand throughout the american continent. An example of Manifest Destiny is the belief by President Polk's administration that the U.S. should expand throughout the continent. Many English Americans of various ethnics agreed with O'Sullivan's view. O’Sullivan said in 1845 in to a new york newspaper reporter that it was a God given destiny for the united states to spread all over North America.
America’s Early Years Over the first 100 years since America’s independence from England, America went through many changes. These changes included changes to the population, size, economy, and government. According to the U.S. census Bureau, the population of the U.S. in 1776 was 2.5 million.
Manifest Destiny is a unique, yet mysterious fundamental series of events in American history. No other country’s history contains such an eventful history as the United States. Amy Greenberg’s book, Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion, provides documented evidence that settlers believed they were destined for expansion throughout the continent. In other words, many religious settlers believed that it was a call from God for the United States to expand west. On the other hand, people believed that Manifest Destiny vindicated the war against Mexico.
(Cayton, 637) These words were main ground of the whole movement; voting rights should not signify by sex but by nationality. This amendment eventually failed during that time, and every suffragist began to promote this Anthony Amendment at the end of each
According to the text the main concept of the Manifest Destiny was so that the United States can use all the space that they had, and to use it to spread out and become a better and bigger improved nation. Based on what I read, it states that many Americans believed that the United States should use all of the space available that there were, and to spread out to the pacific ocean so that their nation can grow at a faster rate with more space. The cause of the removal of mostly all native Americans in 1835 was that when Jackson was president, he created a plan that was going to be used for buying property that the Native American's owned or by forcing them to leave their land by force and cruelty. The effect of this plan ended
Progression has been the number one aim/target/focus throughout American history (EduBirdie Writing Platform, 2023). With this progress , it caused many changes through the economy, social structure, and the political structure of America. This allowed America to be one of the top empires of its time. The reason why it allowed America to be one of the top empires of its time was through the use of freedom through its people in which many other nations did not have. During 1865-1939, Americans went through a period of great progress because of the ‘American Dream’ that worked in all Americans, allowing for massive social, political, and economical changes.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a large portion of Americans were restricted from civil and political rights. In American government in Black and White (Second ed.), Paula D. McClain and Steven C. Tauber and Vanna Gonzales’s power point slides, the politics of race and ethnicity is described by explaining the history of discrimination and civil rights progress for selective groups. Civil rights were retracted from African Americans and Asian Americans due to group designation, forms of inequality, and segregation. These restrictions were combatted by reforms such as the Thirteenth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, the Fifteenth amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, etc. Although civil and political
Manifest Destiny changed the United States socially, economically and politically. It was affected socially because it became more culturally diffused; it also affected relationship with the Native Americans due to the Americans belief that they were the better race and others were inferior to them. It was affected economically because there was more land to profit off of and politically it damaged the United States and Mexico’s foreign relations. Those who believed in the manifest destiny forcefully removed Native Americans from their lands in order for the United States to gain more land. America was shifted politically, due to new tense relations with Mexico, as an effect of the Mexican
The citizens of the United States felt they had the best form of government and culture and felt the obligation to expand it across the nation. Manifest Destiny had both positive and negative effects on social and political values during this time. Americans felt because they were experiencing such growth that God was blessing them and that by incorporating others into their culture they would be blessed too. However, greed eventually took over and the belief that the white man could destroy anyone or anything that got in the way of its progress led to many wars and lives lost over the acquisition of much needed land.
Manifest Destiny was the term used by John O’Sullivan to describe America’s desire to expand West due to reasons including both the vast amount of unclaimed land and the opportunities Americans wanted to explore. During this time, Americans believed that it was their God-given right to expand West, and therefore they were entitled to push away any groups that were in their way. Due to the mindset that the Americans could do as they pleased with the groups of people who got in their way, Manifest Destiny affected many groups of people, including the American Indians and Slaves, and continued to build up the preexisting tension between the North and South. One of the groups of people affected greatly by Manifest Destiny were the Native Americans. Manifest Destiny affected the American Indians by spreading foreign diseases to them as they moved Westward, through the Native American territory.
People always want to demand their essential rights from government’s restriction by passing new laws. There was a period when people demanded their rights in the 1900s. Within the United States, most African Americans’ rights were denied by state governments. Hence, in the 1960s, they took a stand on requiring their rights through the Civil Rights movement around the country. During this movement, the Voting Rights Act was significant and for the reason is that this act gave African Americans a chance to participate in US politics by their votes.
Undoubtedly, America has confronted many adversities throughout its history. Moreover, during the course of these challenges America prevailed, and ultimately formed a nation that has the ability to continuously adapt. There exists a myriad of examples that would support this claim; however, this essay will focus on four major events occurring between the 1860’s and 1920’s. The first event is how the American social status changed before and after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. The second event is how the Civil War played a role in creating a need for Reconstruction, and how Reconstruction culminated in the Industrial Revolution.