In the 1800s, the notion of manifest destiny was the belief that Americans were obligated to fight France to acquire Louisiana.
Americans had the right to spread across the continent. obtaining land would be a struggle for Americans. spreading religion was the purpose of American settlers.
That Americans had the right to spread and take land
Explanation:
The Doctrine of Manifest Destiny is a philosophy that expresses the belief that the people of the United States were elected by God to rule the world, and American geopolitical expansionism is only an expression of this divine will.
In the midst of this idea of the United States world domination was also the idea of the American destiny to dominate the peoples of Latin America, since they are located in the same continent and have not developed the capacity to exercise dominion over other peoples, the which was synthesized in "Be strong while having slaves," a nineteenth-century political propaganda phrase whose main purpose was to demonstrate how attractive and appreciated the US culture was by making the world the best in the world , with the best and most prepared individuals, and, ultimately, to make citizens of other countries despise their own homelands, worshiping the American ideal of progress and superiority.
Enlightenment thinkers sought to curtail the political power of organized religion, and thereby prevent another age of intolerant religious war. The radical Enlightenment promoted the concept of separating church and state.
