Manifest Destiny was the European’s belief that God had sent them to North America to conquer and spread their ideas across the entirety of the continent. They had seen themselves as a vessel for God to use to spread his message and the democracy that came with them. When the Europeans first landed on North American soil, they immediately announced themselves as the rulers of the land and began to occupy the land. When the white settlers arrived on North American grounds, they immediately disregarded the existence of the first nation people. The first nation people were unfamiliar with the European lifestyle and their way of governing the land. Native people already had an unspoken set of principles that they abided by, which allowed them to live harmoniously amongst one another. The arrival of the Europeans had almost immediately taken it upon themselves to uproot the foundation of the first nation …show more content…
The magnitude of the number of settlers that had arrived in the colonies encouraged the Americans to find more land to occupy. As the settlers started their journey across what is now the United States, they encountered many native tribes that lived east of the Mississippi. The land that the native tribes were situated upon was great for agricultural use and despite the natives using a good amount of the land, the Europeans believed that the native people were wasting the uncultivated land. This belief caused the new-land settlers to approach the government with the request that the original inhibitors be removed forcibly for the Americans to continue with westward expansion. To justify the forcible removal of the first nation peoples, the colonists argued that the natives were standing in the way of their duty to fulfill their manifest destiny and because it was God‘s will that the colonists arrived in North America and therefore it was their divine right to take possession of the land they saw