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Americans have a duty to ensure “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from Earth”
- Abraham Lincoln

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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand…”This quote is great for representing the ideals that came with the concept of “Manifest Destiny”. This man is relating himself to biblical texts and the expansion of America as similar to those chosen by god to survive the great flood.

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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand…”This quote is great for representing the ideals that came with the concept of “Manifest Destiny”. This man is relating himself to biblical texts and the expansion of America as similar to those chosen by god to survive the great flood.

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Economic depressions in 1819 and 1839, as well as rapid population growth throughout the 1800's left many people heading west, searching for land and opportunities.

- 1800: 5 Million people
- 1850: 23 Million people

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There were never any set principles laid down with Manifest destiny. Therefore it became a general cultivation of American views such as American exceptionalism, Romantic Nationalism and “extending the area of freedom

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God has given America and special burden and power

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The name "Columbia" rapidly came to be applied to a variety of items reflecting American identity.

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To conquer and steal the Indians land and resources needed justification, justification the Americans found in religion and American Exceptionalism. A mindset that they were Gods chosen people who had convinced themselves their values had made them superior.

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Settlers destined to expand across North America

Expression of conviction in morality and value of expansionism (American Exceptionalism)

"Extending the area of freedom"

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America's success is due to their values

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By the time of the Revolution, the name Columbia had lost the comic overtone and had become established as an alternative, or poetic name for America.

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By the time of the Revolution, the name Columbia had lost the comic overtone and had become established as an alternative, or poetic name for America.

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uncolumbian - unaustralian

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Often young to middle aged and always wearing stars and stripes

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In the second half of the 18th century, the American colonists were beginning to acquire a sense of having an identity distinct from that of their British cousins on the other side of the ocean.

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In the second half of the 18th century, the American colonists were beginning to acquire a sense of having an identity distinct from that of their British cousins on the other side of the ocean.

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Columbia first appeared in the poetry of African American, Phillis Wheatley in 1776

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It is "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions".

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It is "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions".

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John L O'Sullivan