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The native Americans may have felt that the Americans were wrong in the idea of westward expansion, as they believed that the land belonged to spirits, and ownership of lands was against their belief system

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Native Americans, for the most part, didn't understand the concept of owning land. This was a European idea: you are given land, you conquer land, you take land from your neighbor and now it is not their land, but your land. Manifest destiny is the feeling that as an American citizen hailing from Europe, here to claim a new life and be free,  you can take what you want. In fact, you have the right to do so; you deserve it. For working hard? Or for using brute strength and majority support to bully others off of what is rightfully yours. That is not a Native American ideal whatsoever.

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The Europeans needed to expand west in order to gain more farm land and they also felt compelled by god saying that they were supposed to expand westward as manifest destiny. T

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European descendants living in America wanted to move westward to increase their individual sense of freedom. After their relatives lived in a monarchy with a king, they likely wanted to separate from that type of government and being further from the location of the capital probably made them feel as though they had more individual control.

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The very idea of land ownership and basically all European behavior was extremely foreign to the Native  Americans. Many tribes were friendly to white Americans at first, however, I must assume that they felt extremely violated and polluted as the colonization of their lands became a reality. Additionally, the Natives didn't believe in the same  religion or have the same perspective on the success of the U.S., and they certainly didn't buy their selfish ideas.

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The 19th century Native Americans might have said that Manifest Destiny was not the direction they wanted to go in. Native Americans were probably very frustrated that they kept getting pushed out of their land

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The 19th-century Native Americans most likely disliked Manifest Destiny. It was very unfair to them because it limited the pace in which they they had. Native americans probably felt like hurt and confused. They should of shared the land.

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Europe was claustrophobic, crowded, and already explored. A land lacking adventure, there was no excitement or future prospects lying "just around the river bend" (Pocahontas reference).The new world was, well, new and different and loose. There was no king whose family has been in power for decades. No one man or person in general telling you to walk down one path. The world around these Europeans was already claimed and the futures of everyone living there had already been decided.

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Americans of European descent felt so compelled to expand the country westward, because they had fought hard for the country that they made, and they wanted to expand that country, because they no longer saw themselves as Europeans, but rather Americans who were set on growing their country and allowing it to flourish and prosper. They felt a strong sense of nationalism, or pride for one's country

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The Native Americans would have thought badly about Manifest Destiny because the Americans were taking their land rather than sharing it with them. They would of thought that Americans should stay where they settled and that it was not necessary to move.

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The 19th-century Native Americans felt very negatively towards Manifest destiny for a number of reasons. Fundamentally, the concept is based off of a foreign belief system that is attempting to drive them off of their lands for the sake of another culture. Secondly, this is incredibly wrong on a basic, moral level as the Americans are using their religion's concepts as an excuse to discriminate against a race. Christianity as a whole is based upon a complete acceptance of all cultures, which makes all who rely upon Manifest Destiny sacrilegious and outright incorrect in a variety of ways. In the eyes of the Native Americans, there is no real basis for Manifest Destiny, making it seem even more like an excuse to forcibly remove and transport them.

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19th-century Native Americans may have said that Manifest Destiny is something that the Americans of European descent should not feel like they have the entitlement to do. They would have taken this perspective due to the fact that they were initially in the country before the Europeans. Since they were the only inhabitants, they were able to make full use of all the land. Once the Europeans came, they were then pushed out west. Once the northeast was colonized, Europeans then felt compelled to move into the are that the Native Americans were pushed onto. So overall, Native Americans were probably very frustrated and pissed that they just keep on getting pushed out of there land.

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19th-century Native Americans might have said that Manifest Destiny was unfair and that expanding westward was not the true destiny of the American people. At the very least, they probably said that the Americans should share the land and be respectful of two separate groups of people living in America. If the Native Americans lived there first and their culture was based on that land, they likely thought they should have some rights to the west area of America.

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Firstly, Catholicism and Christianity were the predominant religions of white Europeans, and their strong beliefs in a religion that promoted spreading and indoctrination
in its scripture made these white Americans feel like it was morally right to spread their way of life and westernize the continent and its original inhabitants. In addition to that, the United States' many victories gave them even more confidence in their values and religion, and they thought their God was on their side.

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Americans wanted to see what else was out there, all of the land that was "undiscovered".  They felt incredibly entitled, that they had the right to take the right land and use their religion to make it "better".  They believed that their god had given the land to them to "fix" or to help the Native Americans come to their senses. I feel that this jumpstarted a lot of our problems involving race, gender and class. White, Americans feel incredibly entitled to everything, as though they can take anything over and make it theirs.

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Americans of European decent felt compelled to move westward to catch up with the land other countries such as France and England had. At this point, there were still lands and other countries to overthrow to make your own more powerful, the United States was  behind in this area. In this time land was power and proved your worth as a country and expanding your land made the name of your country that much more well-known and that is what America wanted for itself; to be on the list of great countries like Spain, France, and England.

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Americans of European descent felt compelled to expand the country westward. They felt that god was giving them an opportunity to expand and grow upon their nation. They found signs in their achievements that thought meant that god was on their side and wanted them to do as they saw fit. In winning the war of 1812, they thought that they had good on their side and he was on board with their plan to move west. Their belief solidified when they purchased the west in the Louisiana purchase. They thought that god had given them that opportunity to move on. They called this their manifest destiny, to move west and expand their territory. They felt that god gave them all these opportunists and that they were compelled to fallow his signs and let their nation flourish.

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Americans of European descent feel so compelled to expand the country westward because they felt that since we had all this land, why would  we let it go too waste. They thought god gave it to us as a gift so we needed to "take advantage" of it. Americans wanted to explore past their current boundaries to the "undiscovered" land.

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What might 19th-century Native Americans have said about Manifest Destiny? Why would they have taken this perspective?

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Why did Americans of European descent feel so compelled to expand the country westward?