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Providential American mission to expand and push rival powers out of North America.
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Manifest Destiny
Providential American mission to expand and push rival powers out of North America.
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Glossary
The American belief that God wills American control of the Western Hemisphere.
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Defined as the belief that God wills American control over the Americas, producing violent colonization.
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Manifest Destiny is introduced as the American pattern of pushing rival powers out of North America under a providential mission.
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Manifest Destiny is framed as the will of God for America to conquer and settle the Western Hemisphere, with Trump-era Canada and Greenland rhetoric treated as continuity rather than novelty.
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Britain is introduced as practical, empiricist, utilitarian, and imperial; America is introduced as a continental fortress whose Manifest Destiny imagines divine control of the Western Hemisphere.
definition
Manifest Destiny is presented as a religiously justified project of violent colonization across the Americas.
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"induced us to peruse attentively such books as were written upon the subjects proposed that we might be able to speak about. So they..."
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"...Americans will push everyone out. And this is what they call Manifest Destiny. Okay? All right. So 1776, America declares independence from Britain. And..."
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"...right. So, at the Constitution, America now embarks on something called Manifest Destiny. The idea of Manifest Destiny is it's the will of God..."
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"...Kant, especially John Locke. Their driving ideology is the idea of Manifest Destiny. So the idea of Manifest Destiny is that it is the..."
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"The concept is called living space. So throughout its history, the German people have always been invaded, attacked by its adversaries. So to protect..."
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"...But after the American Revolution, the Americans embarked on something called Manifest Destiny."
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"And the idea of Manifest Destiny is that it is God's will that America controls all of the Americas, okay? North America and South..."
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"...them, to remove America from the world and to achieve its manifest destiny, which is basically control over North America, which is the promised..."
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"...out of you. All right. So, now, America, to achieve its Manifest Destiny, it needs to expand. Okay? And it uses multiple strategies to..."
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"Again, because of Manifest Destiny, America sees Canada as part of its territory, but the British don't agree and this leads to the War..."
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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