Question

In at least 100 words explain what the concept of American Exceptionalism means and how it first came about.

Answer 1

American Exceptionalism is a concept that holds the belief that America, as a country, is inherently separate from other nations because of its historical upbringing. Because the country was founded off of the ideas and principles of freedom and breaking off from tyrannical power, a new ideology was brought about called "Americanism," or American Exceptionalism. The terms are also used to describe how America can easily be seen in the act of beginning to change the world with its ideas, culture, and freedoms. Another aspect of American Exceptionalism is the belief that America is superior to other nations because of its history as well as the freedom and power it gives to the people of the nation.

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Answer 2

American exceptionalism is a view of the United States of America that the country sees its history as inherently different from that of other nations, stemming from its emergence from the American Revolution, becoming what the political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset called "the first new nation" and developing a uniquely American ideology, "Americanism", based on liberty, equality before the law, individual responsibility, republicanism, representative democracy, and laissez-faire economics. This ideology itself is often referred to as "American exceptionalism." Second is the idea that America has a unique mission to transform the world. President Abraham Lincoln stated in the Gettysburg address during the American Civil War, in reference to the preservation of the United States itself, Americans have a duty to ensure, "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Third is the sense that America's history and its mission give it a superiority over other nations.