1994 DBQ Manifest Destiny

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Document A, a political cartoon from Thomas Nast, is a perfect allegory for how the powers of Europe quite literally picked countries right off the map, and added them to their ?grab-bag.' Americans, expressing a worry in this, looked back onto the Monroe Doctrine, which proclaimed that European powers would no longer colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations of the Americas...
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But outside the Americas, a specific policy with regard to China, was first advanced by the United States in the Open Door Notes of 1899. In 1898, the United States had become an East Asian power through the acquisition of the Philippine Islands, and when the partition of China by the European powers and Japan seemed imminent, the United States felt its commercial interests in China threatened...
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1994 DBQ Manifest Destiny One of the main differences in the early expansion belief of the Manifest Destiny and the later belief of the 1890's and early 1900's was that the land, for the most part and at least officially, belonged to the Americans...	5 / 1243
Expansionism In The United States The belief of manifest destiny was that the people of the United States were God's chosen people, and therefore should conquer the entire continent to make one mighty nation...	2 / 535
imperialsm and manifest destiny The overseas expansion began in 1898 with the Spanish-American war. Now impulsive, and rash to act, America used the explosion of the Maine to ignite a war with Spain...	3 / 789
Manifest Destiny In the1840s, the term Manifest Destiny was used to justify the United States' westward expansion. This expansion took place in areas like Texas and Oregon...	2 / 418
Manifest Destiny As the nation grew, our government began to look for new sources of income and new ways of acquiring resources. Thus, the government's economic policies remained similar to those of the "Manifest Destiny" Ideal...	2 / 520
Manifest destiny Before becoming more familiar with it's origin, the phrase "manifest destiny" to me was the justification used by the former leaders of this country for taking land from the Indians...	2 / 335
manifest destiny Manifest Destiny, the term first used in 1845 by John L. O'Sullivan, conveyed the idea that the rightful destiny of the US included imperialistic expansion The mission, the "destiny," of the United States was to extend its vision of democracy to all peoples capable of self-government...	1 / 250