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Historians argue that the ideas of manifest destiny impacted all relations between the united states government and native americans in the 1800s. Manifest destiny can best be summed up as

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an excuse for the american government to drive out the native populous from the land, and develop economic opportunities in the west, especially the prospect of gold and oil in California, and the relative proximity to Asia from the west coast.

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Explanation: The Manifest Destiny can be summed up as a kind of religious, philosophical justification for the expansion of the United States to the West. This meant conquering the country from Native Americans, with the aim of spreading capitalism and democracy further west, on the pretext that it was a destiny and mission received from God. The idea was that it would take over the entire continent, with the exception of Native Americans, obstacles were also the states in the South. Capitalism was seen as an idea of ​​missionary, and of spreading progress and development.

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