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Manifest Destiny's Influence On The Settlement Of The West

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Manifest Destiny is the belief or doctrine about the US expansion. It is the assumption that white Americans were “special people” and this came back from the beliefs of the puritans. This doctrine influenced the the settlement of the west because it let white Americans believe that they could control the natives. This doctrine influenced the settlement to the west because it made the migration more likely. Americans attitude towards this was that they thought they deserved all the land. The Manifest destiny made that possible for them to take the land because they said it was god given plan to take the land.
The Americans felt that the Manifest Destiny gave them the right to force other people from there land that they had occupied for centuries

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