He claimed it was unfit for human habitation, thus further delaying movement with people believing him. There were also many mountain men who discovered important and trekked important things. Jedediah Smith rediscovered the Rocky Mountains passageway, and made it widely public since it wasn't before. This helped many travelers on their way west since the Rocky Mountains were difficult to get past. Joe Walker blazed the trail to California with a
Ghost Dance The Native Americans and whites had always been at war with each other, ever since the beginning of the Americas discovery and the migration of immigrants. The Europeans had wanted to acquire more land and make more colonization in the Native American territory. So they started fighting with each other for land and competing for resources. In response both parties would compromise and treaties were made, but the whites usually ended up breaking them. As Europeans started migrating in great numbers, they wanted to expand into the west more.
The people believed that god was coming to give the final judgments because of the second coming of Christ. David stated that god told him to multiply and have babies with many women including women that were married. One of the limits was that the people liked charisma and had lots of talents that convinced these people to follow him. Also, because David had Charisma he had an opposite way of thinking because he wanted people to convert to his religion and believe in him so he had to become someone he was not. The FBI and The Bureau of Tobacco and Fire Arms failed to recognize the nature of millenarian beliefs because David Koresh viewed his delusions as reality of life.
Conversions to faiths like the Shakers peaked during the Second Great Awakening. Over one hundred utopian communities were founded during this time. While some were secular, they were all influenced by the Awakening. The Awakening promoted the spread of religion and perfecting society. The common goal among the utopian societies was to “spread righteousness upon the earth” and to perfect any perceived flaws in society.
Expansionism, however, had long been a part of American policies. Fueled by a belief in it manifest destiny. Manifest destiny is a belief that American possessed a god-given right to rule North America. Throughout the 1800s American settlers expanded westward towards California. But as the 1800s came to a close, American expansion had reached all the way to the pacific and had nowhere else to go on the American mainland.
Essay must be type in 12 point font, Times New Roman and double- spaced. (15 pts) Manifest Destiny I believe that Manifest Destiny was mostly the result of Religious factors. It’s because the Anglo Americans believed on their religion that God bestowed them a right to spread their civilization across the continent. This lead to situations to Indians and Mexicans by showing them aside, redeemed, or exterminate if they recognized them, and they are taking away their land by forcing them to leave. It’s because there is a Picture showing a Lady, who’s representing America and carrying a bible, spreading light to the land of Native Americans because the Anglo Americans believed that their religion can vanished the darkness of the Native Americans’ culture and religion; furthermore, Anglo Americans also believed that the West needed the civilizing power of the hammer, the plow, the ballot box and the pulpit, for they have already transformed the East.
President Roosevelt believed that government reform at the state level needed to be revamped, restrictions needed to be imposed on big business byway of assembling a regulatory program to impose the new changes as well as building up his administrative staff with professionals that would work towards implementing all of the changes that he believed needed to be made. By all outward appearances, from the beginning of his tenure as president, Roosevelt didn’t just talk about changes; he implemented the changes that he promised. Proof that change was his chartered course and main initiative during his time in office, the website english.illinois.edu[->0] quoted President Roosevelt as saying during his first annual address “When the Constitution was adopted . . .
Pride in American nationalism, visions of social perfection, and religious expansion were components that would individually drive settlers to conquest the West. Together these components represent a strong ideological need, in mid-nineteenth century American's, to command from coast to coast. By 1845 the annexation of Texas had been a long standing, controversial issue. Although Congress voted on annexation early in 1845, Texas had not accepted. In the July–August 1845 issue of the Democratic Review, American columnist and editor John O'sullivan published his essay titled “Annexation.” The goal of this essay was to persuade the people it was time to put an end to the opposition of Texas becoming a state.
The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 remains to have significant influence across every nation. Sovereigns upon this international stage have adopted this political order as part of their foreign policy. Initially established by President James Monroe, it has become a longstanding presence within the United States foreign policy over the years. The original purpose of the Monroe Doctrine was to secure the “continents” of the United States from outside threats; more importantly, from any further advancement of the European nation. As a young nation maturing into a respected power, the United States, a spectator society as it were, would ideally police and protect their “brethren republics” of Latin America and other nations within the Western
\Joseph Smith was a Mormon, and the leader of their church at the time. Most did not agree with his ideas of polygamy they even went as far as “nearly shattering the church, his followers brought about Joseph’s death at the hands of a lynch mob”According to MacCormack, Joseph Smith who was the leader of the Mormon church led his followers with the belief of polygamy. Also according to MacCormack most of his followers did not agree with his polygamist views so they went as taking his life from a lynch mob. (MacCormack). “The Mormon polygamists were taken over by a new leader by the name of “Brigham Young, who supported the principle of polygamy, and led the Mormons to the Utah Territory taking polygamy with them” (MacCormack).