HIST 2055 Chapter : History 2055 Terms
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Manifest destiny belief, as democratic editor john l. o"sullivan put it, that it had become the united. States", manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. the roots of the doctrine were both religious and political. Protestant religious thinkers had long seen american settlement as a settlement as setting a pious and virtuous example to the rest of the world. The political ideology of the revolution encouraged the notion that the benefits of democracy would spread along with political expansion of the nation. Manifest destiny was also racist in its assumption of the inferiority of other peoples and cultures; and it encompassed a purely economic desire to expand the nation"s commerce and power. Morse in 1832, he invented the telegraph and revolutionized the speed of communication. One night in 1831, he and six confederates stole out and murdered turner"s master and family.
