Manifest Destiny became the accepted title of the drive America had started into the west, and was the fundamental belief of American expansionism. ... That it was America's G-D given duty to spread over the entire North American continent and in turn to spread the word of G-D across this land. ... Manifest destiny declared America as this land. ... Americans felt no shame in these uncouth Jacksonian tactics because Florida was American territory. ... No act of cruelty in any part of American history is any darker than that suffered by the American Indians. ...

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