NATIONALISM AIDS EXPANSION AND MANIFEST DESTINY
Nationalism, helped along by Presidents, helped the cause of expansion and Manifest Destiny become a public goal.
“Many Americans have accepted the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny at face value, seeing their nation’s continental expansion as inevitable and altruistic, a result of the irresistible force generated by a virtuous people”
-Contemporary historian George C. Herring (180)
-Americans nationalist in 1820s to 1840s; shared a new type of country.
-Governor Aaron Brown said "...America might become the last asylum of liberty to the human family" (Weinberg 123).
-quote underlines American's nationalist feelings towards liberty.
-Expansion was influenced by nationalism; people concerned with pioneers in Texas and other territories.
-President Polk wanted to expand, believer in Jacksonianism.
-Polk: first President to publicly advocate for Manifest Destiny.
-Inaugural address: Polk stressed states, not individuals, should look to expand. which takes nationalist feelings from individuals, and puts them into everyone.
-The press made Manifest Destiny more widespread.
-Shows that all people, not just government, shared nationalistic feelings.
-Democrats: more land is more liberty in an agrarian sense
-used Manifest Destiny to fulfill their agenda via nationalistic sentiments.
-Therefore, Manifest Destiny "...resulted from design, not destiny" (Herring 184).
-Governor Aaron Brown said "...America might become the last asylum of liberty to the human family" (Weinberg 123).
-quote underlines American's nationalist feelings towards liberty.
-Expansion was influenced by nationalism; people concerned with pioneers in Texas and other territories.
-President Polk wanted to expand, believer in Jacksonianism.
-Polk: first President to publicly advocate for Manifest Destiny.
-Inaugural address: Polk stressed states, not individuals, should look to expand. which takes nationalist feelings from individuals, and puts them into everyone.
-The press made Manifest Destiny more widespread.
-Shows that all people, not just government, shared nationalistic feelings.
-Democrats: more land is more liberty in an agrarian sense
-used Manifest Destiny to fulfill their agenda via nationalistic sentiments.
-Therefore, Manifest Destiny "...resulted from design, not destiny" (Herring 184).