Native Americans and the Manifest Destiny

The Manifest Destiny affected the way in which America was brought up. For some, it brought much goodwill, wealth, and power; Due to their westward expansion. Of all the land that they wanted to obtain, no matter what means where necessary. Those who were most heavily affected though were the Native Americans to those lands at the time. The Native Americans were mistreated, as well as conned out of there rightfully owned land. The mistreatment included: Malnutrition, displaced, rape, murder, disease, and exhaustion. It deprived them of their land, culture, and, to some degree, their independence. The Westward expansion of the Manifest Destiny was not kind to the Natives.

Northerners who were had massive economic issues that were not stable, and a population that was far too large, knew that Manifest Destiny would lower populations in certain areas because the population grew from more than five million in the eighteen hundred to over twenty-three million. The South believed that expansion would bring lots of land for agriculture and manufacture, which the thought could possible stabilized there income. The Manifest Destiny began within the nineteenth century, in search for more westward expansion. “...the right of our manifest destiny to over spread to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given to us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federative development of the self government entrusted to us. It is right such as that of the tree to the space of air and the earth suitable for the full expansion of its principle and destiny of growth” .....John

O’Sullivan. On a religious viewpoint, Americans believed that god was pushing them to expand, that it was there god given right to expand, so therefor there was a reason for it, and it was justified. It was used to justify the removal of Native Americans from their lands in to expand Anglo-Saxon civilization and Christianity. The fact that they would strip people of their religion to convert them to Christianity added on to religious viewpoints. Even the term ‘Manifest Destiny’ was made up by a New York journalist, John O’Sullivan in the year eighteen forty five, showing God’s intention for America to be made up of and by Americans. They wanted to extend from coast to coast all the way out to the Pacific Ocean. A lot of Americans supported the thought of westward expansion. They wanted far more land so that America could build more railroads, to support the trade from East over to the West. Expansion was going to extend over to the Pacific Ocean; conveniently opening trade for trader’s overseas. The people of the south also believed that slavery would be help by which it would expand over to the west areas.

Those who were supporters of the Manifest Destiny said that it would be similar to the positive effects brought forth by the previous expansion with the Louisiana Purchase. They wanted to grow as well as expand in a quicker manner. What Americans were in search for desperately at this time was a possibility to live better lives then what they had been accustomed to.

well, not taking into account who founded the land first. The government would still want four policies that were specifically aimed to open Native land to white settlement: removal, reservations, allotment, and elimination.

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continued settling into the west they also continued to settle the Indians west as



Although the Manifest Destiny did affect many other people, and groups; of course the Native Americans were the most greatly affected. Americans would do anything to get the land of the west that they had not actually been owner to.

President Andrew Jackson was aware at the time that the remove would not actually be

so easy to do in their mission to expand westward. That is why he did in