Conclusion

The fact that a nation born from a colonial rebellion would fight wars for colonies of its own is testimony to both the ideological power and flexibility of Manifest Destiny. From the eighteenth century forward, the European settlers of

Britain's New World colonies perceived an exceptional future for their polity, one grounded in the seemingly endless frontier to their west.

Dismissing Indian peoples as holding legitimate claim to their land, a rapidly multiplying population drove western expansion. By the 1830s the perception that the United States had a unique destiny to expand across the continent had become doctrine. The perceived destiny of the United States dramatically shifted between 1840 and 1898, from the incorporation of annexed peoples into the existing democratic structure to a global empire complete with colonies whose residents had limited political rights. But both were deemed manifest by supporters at the time. With the conquest of America's overseas territories in 1898, America's territorial empire was complete. But the United States' commercial empire, which emerged as an appealing alternative to territorial expansion in the decades after the Civil War, would continue to grow through the twentieth century.

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