Manifest Destiny Imperialism

Introduction

Imperialism or colonialism was viewed negatively from an international standpoint, but they managed to annex Hawaii (undemocratically) and to keep Puerto Rico as a colony disguising it for a Common Wealth (in the fifties). They helped Cuba out in their independence, but managed it through its puppet government, as well as some other Latin American countries. They also controlled the Philippines, despite the fact that they achieved their independence. The American Virgin Islands, Guam, Mariana islands are still colonies, or were until just recently (Solnit,1994,236-367). It may have been legitimate at the turn of the 19th century, but by the mid 1900s, there was much international pressure to solve the colonial situation because it was viewed as immoral as people have a right to self-government or sovereignty.

What is Manifest Destiny?

Manifest Destiny is a philosophy with which the U.S. tries to justify how that country has understood its place in the world and how to relate to other people. It is a doctrine, phrase or idea that expresses the belief that the United States of America is destined to spread to the four winds because it supports the idea that is, to expand on the territories conquered in North America and, in general, the Western Hemisphere. According to this ideology, was not sufficient occupation of territory and thus was also used to justify territorial acquisitions made ??by the United States (Solnit,1994,236-367).

This doctrine was not free of racism, considering that the American people were superior to the "mestizos" of neighboring countries located south of the border, so it should be "regenerated". One seeks to understand the world that God chose these people to be a political and economic power as a nation than the rest of the world.

Manifest Destiny ("manifest destiny") refers to an American doctrine of the 19th Century. It says that the U.S. had a divine mission to expand, especially over the middle of the 19th Century existing western boundary towards the Pacific. The phrase that means something as obvious (and inevitable) fate, had the New York journalist John L. O'Sullivan in 1845 in an article in the magazine (Rhodes,2001,123-137). "The United States Democratic Review" was coined when he wrote that it was "the obvious Determination of the nation to spread out and take possession of the entire continent, which Providence has entrusted to us for the development of the great experiment of freedom and a united alliance of sovereigns.” Manifest Destiny was never a particular policy or ideology; it is a general term that was part of the American exceptionalism, nationalism with expansionism and racism combined. Social psychology is the phenomenon of a self-fulfilling prophecy (Reyna,1999,96-111).

The impacts

Although this doctrine originally opposed the use of violence, since 1840 was used to justify intervention in the politics of other countries and territorial expansion through war. That's why one of the clearest consequences brought this doctrine was territorial expansion and the U.S. imperialist conception, which sits from the nineteenth century (Pletcher,2001,1784-1900). When in 1803 President Thomas Jefferson purchase Louisiana ...