John Mendez Mr. Rinard APUSH Period 4 Manifest Destiny Many Americans in the early 1800s believed that America was to contain all of the North American continent. This belief was called "Manifest Destiny." The term came from a New York newspaper editorial of December 27, 1845, which stated that the nation's manifest destiny was "to over spread and to possess" the whole continent, to develop liberty and self-government to all. In the eyes of the Americans, it was …
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…was that white Americans had that right to the expansion of US territory from coast to coast. This belief brought on the territory for the US but also was the direct cause of death and suffering on the Native Americans and Mexican people who lived in the territory. Because Americans believed that they were destined to expand, they brought their wrongful and deceiving actions against other human beings as merely on his or her beliefs.