New Manifest Destiny Chapter Summary

The theme explored in The New Manifest Destiny is America in the World. The experience had with subjugating native Americans had established a precedent for exerting colonial control over peoples. A new Manifest Destiny emerged where foreign trade became significant in the late 19th century. .Some American began to fear that their nation would be left out of the raging imperialist fever going on in Europe, such as in the partition of Africa. Social Darwinism became a justification for American imperialism, as only the strongest nation could survive in a world of competition. The author John Fiske wrote that it was the inevitable destiny of English-speaking peoples to control every land that was not already the seat of an “established civilization”. John …show more content…
A similar situation occurred during the Jeffersonian Era in the 18th century where Americans dreamt of an America that ranged from east to west, and this romanticization was so strong, Americans were willing to move Native Americans from their homes, to prevent conflict among whites. Americans saw expansion similarly to Americans in the 20th century, as the only path to global power and respect from other nations in the global arena.As America entered the early 20th century, the spirit of expansionism among Americans was reinvigorated due to a variety of factors, among which were social tensions at home, as well as a fear of left behind in the global competition for colonial supremacy, and this driving force behind American imperialism redefined America's role in the world, and has influenced America's foreign policy up to the present day, where American intervenes in foreign countries as the champion of