1. Manifest Destiny: Yesterday and Today
Manifest Destiny became the accepted title of the drive America had started into the west, and was the fundamental belief of American expansionism. ... Our reactions to the Native American issue however was a little less civilized . . . ... If applied to a right-wing Christian's thought process in progressive America, Darwin spells certain doom for the "inferior" native American pagans. ... Therefore, a civilized people like the settlers have a right and obligation even to force civilization on people like the native Americans. ... Clearly it was not hostility but social responsibi...
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