JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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A mericans felt they had a duty to spread their way of life throughout North America.
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Americans believed that the Native American culture was better than theirs.
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Americans felt they would be helping Native Americans and others by teaching them a new way of life.
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Americans believed that it was their destiny, or future, to settle the west. They believed God had given them this destiny.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The philosophy describing the necessary expansion of the nation westward was called Manifest Destiny; the belief that it was our duty to settle the continent, conquer and prosper.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper editor John O’Sullivan coined the term ‘manifest destiny’ to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific.
Detailed explanation-3: -Manifest Destiny, simply put, was the belief that Americans had the divine right to settle all throughout America, until the Pacific Ocean. This was caused by Americans feeling that it was the will of God that they tame the wilderness and civilize the west, and remake it in the image of the 13 colonies.