Question

How did the concept of Manifest Destiny relate to the Puritans?

Answer 1

The Manifest Destiny’s theoretical foundations behind the conception date back to the first Puritan colonists, such as John Winthrop, and his group’s clear desire to build a Shining City on a Hill or a new Jerusalem. The concept that America and its Puritan creators had an ethical right and responsibility to originate a purer, better world informed the idea of what came to be known as “American Exceptionalism,” which is certainly an extension of Manifest Destiny. Both terms indicate that by its very nature, and because of its establishment and ideals, the United States has an ethical purpose to rule the western hemisphere and to plan its supremacy, power, and values transversely the continent, by force if required.