Manifest Destiny

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Animated map of Statesian settler colonial expansion starting in 1783.

Manifest Destiny was a white supremacist, expansionist, and settler colonial belief that advocated for the United States to expand across North America. President James Monroe later expanded Statesian colonial ambitions into Latin America and Oceania.[1] The colonial expansion of the United States inspired the later Nazi policy of Lebensraum.[2]

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References

  1. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: 'Introduction: This Land' (p. 3). [PDF] Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807000403
  2. Stephen Gowans (2018). Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom: 'Suppressing a Worldwide Movement for Liberty' (p. 102). [PDF] Montreal: Baraka Books. ISBN 9781771861427 [LG]