Manifest Destiny and American Culture

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Manifest Destiny and American Culture

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Manifest Destiny

• G-d given
• Civilization
• Progress
• Race

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Manifest Destiny
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Land

• Jeffersonian Democracy
• Property and Citizenship
• Capitalism

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Racial Ideologies

• Mexicans
• Indian Race
• Half-savage, Half-civilized
• Native Americans
• Civilization is destined to exterminate them, in
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Mexican War

• Slavery and Race
• Quick Victories re-enforced racial ideologies
• Citizenship after the war

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Davy Crockett the Alamo
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Memory and the Manifest Destiny

• Expansion
• Alamo as a symbol
• Citizenship and immigration