Manifest Destiny

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[[File:USA settler expansion.png|thumb|372x372px|Animated map of [[United States of America|Statesian]] [[Settler colonialism|settler colonial]] expansion starting in 1783.]]
'''Manifest Destiny''' was a [[White supremacy|white nationalist]],<ref>{{Citation|author=Armando Navarro|year=2005|title=Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan: Struggles and Change|title-url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mexicano_Political_Experience_in_Occupie/on1DZMLNcZIC|chapter=Historical Antecedents to the Mexicano Political Experience in the United States|section=The Rise of Manifest Destiny: A Guise for U.S. Imperialism|page=62|quote=The origins of Manifest Destiny can be traced to the founding of the United States as a nation-state. Its basis was and continues to be predicated on Anglo-Saxon chauvinism and imperialism. The cultural basis to its formulation was an Anglo-Saxon Protestant ethnocentric ethos, which subsequently evolved into a more inclusive Euroamerican ethos. [...] Manifest Destiny was and continues to be linked to white nationalism and liberal capitalist imperialism.|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=9780759105676|anna=https://annas-archive.org/md5/2d5e4a30cfbce7f22a4768947befda7a}}</ref> [[Expansionism|expansionist]],<ref>{{Web citation|author=Gustav Graner|newspaper=ESCP International Politics Society|title=A New Wave of American Expansionism|date=2025-04-23|url=https://pppescp.com/2025/04/23/a-new-wave-of-american-expansionism/|archive-url=https://megalodon.jp/2025-0828-0605-09/https://pppescp.com:443/2025/04/23/a-new-wave-of-american-expansionism/|archive-date=2025-08-27|retrieved=2025-08-27|quote=In the mid-19th century, the expansionist fervor was dubbed “Manifest Destiny,” coined to encapsulate Americans’ belief in a God-given right to conquer the entire North American continent – a conviction tracing back to the first settlers, who believed survival in the new world would be a sign of god’s approval.}}</ref> and [[Settler colonialism|settler colonial]]<ref>{{Web citation|title=Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal|url=https://americanexperience.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Manifest-Destiny-and-Indian-Removal.pdf|archive-url=https://megalodon.jp/2025-0828-0618-11/https://americanexperience.si.edu:443/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Manifest-Destiny-and-Indian-Removal.pdf|archive-date=2025-08-27|quote=The self-serving concept of manifest destiny, the belief that the expansion of the United States was divinely ordained, justifiable, and inevitable, was used to rationalize the removal of American Indians from their native homelands.}}</ref> belief that advocated for the [[United States of America|United States]] to expand across [[North America]]. President [[James Monroe]] later expanded [[United States of America|Statesian]] colonial ambitions into [[Latin America]] and [[Oceania]].<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz|year=2014|title=An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States|chapter=Introduction: This Land|pdf=https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib/VA01000195/Centricity/Domain/10601/An%20Indigenous%20Peoples%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Ortiz.pdf|city=Boston, Massachusetts|publisher=Beacon Press|isbn=9780807000403|page=3}}</ref> The colonial expansion of the United States inspired the later [[German Reich (1933–1945)|Nazi]] policy of [[Lebensraum]].<ref name=":110">{{Citation|author=Stephen Gowans|year=2018|title=Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom|chapter=Suppressing a Worldwide Movement for Liberty|page=102|pdf=https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaced4iiga4ngtxusr2civjxewbili5jne2sbpefbx2s3im2kphattzc?filename=Stephen%20Gowans%20-%20Patriots%2C%20Traitors%20and%20Empires_%20The%20Story%20of%20Korea%E2%80%99s%20Struggle%20for%20Freedom-Baraka%20Books%20%282018%29.pdf|city=Montreal|publisher=Baraka Books|isbn=9781771861427|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8435F6FF91279531705764823FDC2A7F}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Holocaust Encyclopedia|title=Lebensraum|url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensraum|archive-url=https://archive.is/K7Amr|archive-date=2022-01-10|retrieved=2025-08-27|quote=For the Germans, eastern Europe represented their “Manifest Destiny.” Hitler and other Nazi thinkers drew direct comparisons to American expansion in the West. During one of his famous “table talks,” Hitler decreed that “there's only one duty: to Germanize this country [Russia] by the immigration of Germans and to look upon the natives as Redskins.”}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Monroe Doctrine]]
* [[Lebensraum]]
* [[Zionism]]

== References ==
[[Category:Settler colonialism]]
[[Category:Genocide]]

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