What is Manifest Destiny?
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2025
- The idea of Manifest Destiny was a major factor in westward expansion in the United States in the 1800s. This video will introduce you to the meaning of the phrase as you explore a primary source by John O'Sullivan and examine the painting "American Progress" by John Gast. You'll also understand the consequences of Manifest Destiny and the impact it had on different groups of people in the 1800s.
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Old American mindsets were insane to sweep across a plain destroying everything in sight to build your home is so alien! Great video! Continue to shed light on history! when I was taught in school they made it seem like just a few Indians were scooted over, no harm done.
What do u think u live in lol
@@iamweare8687oh my god this is the most braindead stupid take that people like u always regurgitate to defend the some of the worst atrocities & genocides in history, “you live in society therefore you cannot criticize it” is middle schooler level logic. I just know probably believe so much stupid & completely historically & factually unfounded white supremacist apologia like that the civil war was really just about “states rights” & not slavery & also that the founding fathers (who r@ped their female slaves & did demonically horrific shit like how George washington’s dentures were actually made with teeth ripped out of a slaves mouth) were all just “products of their time” who didn’t know any better & that you can’t really blame them because supposedly no one back the was any better or different, despite the fact that centuries before the American revolution there had already existed people during the time of Columbus who were strongly anti slavery & accurately viewed it as, unlike you clearly don’t, the indefensible & extremely evil inhumane crime against humanity that it is.
Cope
@@iamweare8687 A Society
@@Kristenkore Change it
This was so damn well explained, even the discription and interpretation of the painting, amazing thanks!
Your note made my day! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this, it was very helpful, informative and concise!
Thank you so much for your kind words! :)
Were so back. Greenland, Panama, Canada, and Mexico better get ready.
Lay off the donuts, Chubster. How are you planning to take over any country when you can’t even finish running a lap around your local Walmart?
We are SO back
@@vintagelugs1708seethe
Wait I thought MAGA was anti war? (I'm just teasing. I realize this was just a disingenuous talking point that manifested across the political discourse for some reason around the time of February 24th, 2022, and was never actually a genuinely held ideological principle and was basically just a way to amplify talking points put forth by Tenet Media types who were being paid very handsomely to promote the interests of a certain East European dictatorship)
@Hillary4SupremeRuler schizophrenia
Thank you I have this for history (somehow history is really hard for me no matter how much I study) and you even added a bonus for me 😊: we have paintings that we have to analyze and “manifest Destiny” was one of them :)
Your note made my day!! I'm so happy to hear that this video was helpful to you and I wish you the best of luck in your studies! :)
Straight up insane mindset
It's based is what it is. The US is the #1 superpower
You can leave the country now. Bye bye 😂
Reminds me of the “from the river to the sea” crowd
@@dfdf-rj8jrBased, Would you rather have California ruled by Mexicans or Americans
@@Dhhtyu4566 are you referring to those anti Imperialist/anti colonialist reactionaries that love to promote Arab Muslim conquest and defend gennosidal dictatorships who try to annex their neighbors?
The music in the beginning of this video has the same starting melody as Concerning Hobbits, the opening song in Lord of the Rings, which is played any time throughout the trilogy where hobbits are on screen and uplifting music is in order. Came here for school and then got smacked hard in the feels!
Manifest destiny for all the races pushed away will now return to our rightful place.
I loved this from the music to the vice to the explanation. Well done!
Thank you so much! :)
In other words. They used God as an excuse to steal land
That is pretty much the entire story of the human race.
From who?
The "natives" didnt have the concept of land ownership...
Stealing is the act of taking what belongs to someone else...
The "natives" themselves said that nobody owns the land...
obviously after they abandoned their sacred view of the world once they learned the "evil ways" of the "white man" they immediately tried to retroactively claim it...i guess green is the only color that matters...
Dear God..& “he gave his only son to die for our sins!!!”😢
If everyone would read the Bible as it was intended, they would see that most of the stuff that many of the wealthy people have attributed to do because of religion and religion is not God that’s a whole separate thing God in richest peoples lives is everything religion distort itmakes it their own
The land was owned by no one.
manifest destiny is the greatest example of american entitlement, they had no regard for the nations already thriving in the land. in my memory teachers never seemed to convey the idea that it wasn’t just a couple “tribes” but in fact half of a continent of nations with developed land and infrastructure. to me it holds the same sentiment we’ve held throughout history being it’s our apparent right and responsibility to “protect” the world from “dangerous” ideas i.e. anything different from our own. the reservations of today are an insult to the people whose land we’ve raped and pillaged for centuries. reservations are intentionally placed in inferior and low quality land forcing the people to rely on the american food supply and resources. our corporations have poisoned fishing communities, and dumped toxic sludge in the lands of the indigenous people for decades. making the national parks the property of the government making it illegal to hunt and fish was robbing the native nations from their long standing respectful and sustainable relationship with the land and animals and plants. and now international trade and the spread of capitalism has spread the disease of the american way. manifest destiny is a disgusting fucking sentiment and i despise this american brand of patriotic ownership of the land that we abuse this land is not my land or your land it was made for the human beings we hunted and scalped for sport and bounty. driving through the dirty car centric concrete wasteland of modern america leaves a foul taste in my mouth. education is important and we all need to learn about the vast european-american genocides of this land.
This is how humans are. we spread until territorial conflicts arise. There is no right or wrong. Europeans were far more developed and organized than the tribes dwelling there. they took the opportunity and settled to build a functioning society. and some of those moral justifications were their believe for being destined to conquer this land. I mean they did that pretty easily.
Blaming the conscious of former settlers, for wanting to settle in new territory, for late stage capitalism, that rules in almost every corner of the world isn't going to cut it. Corporate greed and exploitism of todays standards was nobodies intention and is hurting everybody, no matter their view on this subject.
Truth is: hadn't europeans touched the native land, there would be no sings of infrastructure or law. Who really knows if this was the better option.
plus, yada yada yada... genocides caused by territorial conflicts have happened EVERYWHERE in the world. intristingly its only ever bad when euros do it.
we live in a society.
You suffer from presentism
If the natives would have stopped killing, raiding and conquering each other in the late 18th century, they could have stopped the expansion. As you are not wrong when you say American "entitlement" every nation has had that mindset. I do believe that what our forefathers did was wrong. But show me a people's history, including native American, that isn't just like ours. We need to look at all history honestly.
Yes, you put it very well: "American entitlement."
The United States would not rest.
Till we'd reached the end of our quest.
It had burned like a fire, more lands to acquire.
Was it our destiny, manifest????
Mexico's strength was then tested.
Many lands from her clutches were wrested.
Was it fair to provoke
Such a war, as did Polk?
Was it our destiny, manifested??????
-------------Limerick Rex
Well said!! 👏👏👏
This was nice and simple
Very easy to understand
Thank you!!
Thank you so much!
This is a good presentation of American Expansion westward. It brings up many questions with European migration to the Americas and the confiscation of land from the indigenous Native Americans. In addition, there was enslavement of millions of African captives who were brought to the Americas to work for and to enrich a few European immigrants. In school we were taught Manifest Destiny justify European conquest and settlement of the American continent, while ignoring the killing and displacing of Native Americans. Yet would we want our homeland to be confiscated from us by force of arms? Then given to and owned by immigrants from the Europe? How would we feel if those same European immigrants then brought African captives to work on the land stolen from us? Such self serving barbarity. Is this not Manifest Destiny? Yes, it is.
Yeah but one of the craziest parts is that we have people in the 21st century coming up with all sorts of ideas to try and justify this. And then they complain about illegal immigration and use the analogy of people coming into your home uninvited and "invading" when their ancestors did the same. And they don't admit it, in 2024, crazy times we live in!
Youre completely wrong... natives weren't truly native to America, they moved there from Asia a long time ago. Again, you don't "own" land because you shit on it and kill the rest of the other tribes. You "own" land by protecting it and deterring stronger enemies from taking it.
You are in 2024, they are in the 1700s/1800s. Your mindset will be different in them in a lot of things not just this topic. So please stop trying to pull "revisionist" history
But you can keep benefitting from the economic superpower of America, as that only happens due to Manifest Destiny.
Tbh the American Indians get the world’s best reparations. No other country gives billions to the ppl they conquered. And 65% of them voted for Trump. ❤
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Hope they're doing well tho
huge help thank you very much
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Wow amazing Video this helped me so much thank you!😍
Thank you so much for your kind comment! 🙂
Thank you. You made me get an a on my quiz
Loved the content.
This helped me with a college essay.
Thanks!
The painting by John Gast omits the US cavalry!? To quote from "The Clash of Civilisations" by Samuel P Huntington: “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion… but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
Was it manifest because people in the east would obviously have to walk west else they would walk into the Atlantic Ocean (east)?
amazing explaination! thanks!!
This is amazing explaining which teached me some thngs
Very informative
How does the Manifest Destiny idea still influence society today?
It inspired Germans to do stuff during 1930's. Lebensraum, look it up.
Our wars are fueled by the idea that we should force democracy on other countries. I personally believe this is a good thing but we’re forcing our will. I do not like war but we should all be free as human beings. We also influence with our culture or with propaganda that could be used against Russia, China or other federalist states. I’ve learned recently that American culture is absolutely everywhere and we influence the world in ways that no American would ever guess. It’s manifest destiny but we don’t take any land. Which is honorable in a way. To me at least. It has pros and cons of course.
It’s inspiring Israel in Palestine today
Pigrael's holocaust in Palestine.
Know you know
Blew my f'n mind. I used it all the time thinking it literally meant what it meant by the two words combined. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 never again
is this a push or pull
nevermind it’s a pull factor 😂
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They use it also in japan but japan is a independent thriving country not a colony
independent? :))) Japan is occupied by the US, nothing independent there
And to think they taught this at my high school.
This is leaving out a good bit. Manifest Destiny didn't start in the 1800's. It started in the pilgrim colonies
How about focusing on things for the greater good. All I see about this type of stuff is very selfish based desires.
😶 ummm ... your good & the greater good appear to be 2 different things.
Many ppl know the pain my ppl had to go through. I'm both mixed with Cherokee and African American and to hear they were Destined by God to manifest the rape and murder of millions is disgusting. Then they gave us Thanksgiving to directly or indirectly celebrate that fulfilled destiny.. However im an American and proud to be one.. This is hard to accept but I forgive the sins of the forefathers of this country, and stand to salute the flag.. More work is to be done, but we come a long way. I respect both the Union and Confederate soldiers for fighting for what they believed in.. I wished that I joined the Marines when I had the chance to. Im looked down on because im a black man that loves his country, his guns and voted for Trump. Lol,,,,, That's the weak "Lets go Brandon " world we live in
trump 2024 !!!
@@dingilingdingilton7366 Trump 2024 indeed,, im definitely a supporter
This was the most American comment I've read in a while. I never truly understood how can you love a country, what's so interesting about a citizenship, a 100-year-old paper with dumb laws and a worthless piece of land. Nationalism, or being proud of anything other than what you accomplished yourself wil always be a foreign concept for me.
@@normalperson397 well you’re foreign to the whole world tho. That’s just how the world works. Your feelings an attitudes are very fringe in most of the world except in the west. Africans, Asians, middle easterners, Eastern Europeans, Jews, native Americans don’t feel the same attitudes as you towards nationalism
@@normalperson397 There's a shit ton to love about America.
How is Zionism any different from this mindset?
Jews lived in these lands before
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Thanks
Are all your videos kid friendly or appropriate at least
We should have asked our selves Are We the Baddies.
you should not ask yourseves anything. You are the Baddies, yes, and everybody knows that
@@panchitaobrian1660 All of humanity are "Baddies". Even in a democracy, there's a minority that are told what to do against their wishes. They would also view themselves as "victims". There's also always going to have "powerful" people/nations telling others what to do. There's always going to be opposition. Cohabitating this world requires compromise, and no one is willing to compromise on everything. Especially beliefs and values.
At the end of the day, it's about choosing sides and labelling your opponents as "Baddies". We all have our own individual beliefs and values. If someone doesn't share them, they're labelled bad, immoral, evil, enemies, outlaws. We label people with opposing views with such labels to justify hatred, violence, coercion and eventually forcing upon other your point of view, beliefs or values.
mandate of heaven????
reminds of Israel and nazi Germany. It is actually the same ideology
I’m so happy we’re beginning a new Manifest Destiny!!
Huh
In your dreams MAGA dimwit
Manifest destiny was righteous and noble. Glad we live in the America we live in today.
I feel bad for you.
@@Blackpilled_Kremlin_Tsarina30 No need to feel bad for me I live in the country that has 25% of all human wealth and the highest median income (excluding microstates like the Vatican of course). Ty manifest destiny
@@tye829tf is that pfp tho😭
@@Blackpilled_Kremlin_Tsarina30Yep 2024 and people still have an 1840's mindset. It's honestly just laughable at this point. Who knows maybe they don't have an accurate calendar.
@@tye829
And the most enemies, outside and inside its territory
Your hegemony is in decline and chances are you will live to see the collapse
How in the world did France already own something never explored? Or were the explorer's just broke and needed a loan to make the trip?
Hey, so there might be a slight confusion here ! The american continent has been explored by europeans (mainly spanish, portuguese, english and french) colons since the fifteenth century (1492 Christopher Colombus, then Amerigo Vespucci) the continent was quickly colonised by those same europeans, and the land of the french were near the south/west, the name Louisiana comes from a long line of french kings who where named Louis (XIV, XV, XVI..) ! Americans got their independence in 1776 from Britain, they were also a colony before ! After their independence, they wanted to extend their territory (aka the US) so they just went westward ! Napoleon (french emperor) sold the french colonies to the US to go to war
@justinebazire2690 Thank you
An expand they did!
The strong shall cull the weak
I don't wanna hear you cry and seethe when you are at the recieving end of it.
@@endloesung_der_braunen_frage fair
@@littleantukins4415 good then.
Yeah, when the cowards used guns and weapons to take what is not theirs!
What is**ael says is nothing new I guess
Hello comrades! Im Vladimir Lenin! I promise Peace Land and Bread.
It was the Manifest destiny of you to form USSR or communist world
@@pabanjaiswal1112 Hey.. where did you learn that?!?!
GET OUTTA MY HEAD, I CANT BECOME PRIME MINISTER WITH COMMUNISM GROWING INSIDE MY MIND.
Lmao 🤣 motherland
you're jewish
A comment. For engagement.
Who’s here after Canada joined the union
Belief?
Yes it was a belief. A very evil and demonic one
Back when America was great.
10,000 religions...MAN MAKE RELIGIONS
She got that Let Me Explain Studios Gyatt.
America is doomed to fail and should fail based on the premise explained here. RIP "America". Karma.
LOL. You are so simple minded. Not one country in this world was shaped or created peacefully. There's always going to be wars.
Karma! 🤣You must be perfect. Talk about cherry-picking facts to suit your views. We all do it. It's called picking sides and choosing opponents based on our values, beliefs that are not universally agreed on. It's very individual.
There's always going to be an us against them.
There is no such thing as indigenous people. They all came from somewhere else. Maybe you can find some original tribe in East Africa but we all come from around there. People left, conquer each other, blended, then fought for more. This has gone on since before homo Sapiens sapiens. You want to live like an American Indian. Go to a camping store, they have everything you need.
What in the MAGA is this comment
@@cheese2742do ur research
brother what
i had to do this junk for school
me rn
mistreated is definitely not the right word
White American progress.
Good so what's wrong with that. Do you think any superpowers before American did nice things? They also did the same as Americans who conquered, plundered, subjugated, and enforced their ideology on the other land. Please read about Roman Empire, Muslim conquest, Persian Empire, and Mongols, they were not different from the Americans
@@HainiDjokovic1995 Spanish Empire didn't do that in that scale, just in the beginning, they teach natives to write and do math
Prob a stinky muslim
@@lacuevadegolum9448. Did you this in a Golden Book?
@@HainiDjokovic1995 Right, so don't get on your high horses when talking about other countries pasts, you Americans have no right what so ever to judge others.
Wow now i see where Israel got the idea 🤔
It's a crappy philosophy.
Its what israel is doing now and we did before
OMG YOUR SLAYING
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@@lauravirginia9220hater
Show me the burning bush
The land was mostly unowned and unoccupied.
"mostly"
That's not, another person's property.
The capitalists know what they're doing.
FRANCE were not the original owners.
Try those tribes that have been there. First.
I don’t care what ants think about their anthills, it’s ALL MY dirt.
i need to fart
We should revive manafest destiny.canada looks nice.
W.S.
Baz aja
Funny how things change
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