{"id":811,"date":"2015-06-23T16:17:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T16:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanyawp\/?post_type=chapter&p=811"},"modified":"2015-06-23T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T16:17:57","slug":"conclusion-10","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ushistory1ay\/chapter\/conclusion-10\/","title":{"raw":"Conclusion","rendered":"Conclusion"},"content":{"raw":"The debates over expansion, economics, diplomacy, and manifest destiny in the antebellum decades exposed some of the weaknesses of the American system. Despite a perceived American chauvinism in policies of Native American removal, the Mexican war, and filibustering, the bombast of the period belied a growing malaise among citizens in a society struggling to\u00a0understand its past and deal with its present\u00a0concerns. Manifest destiny attempted to make a virtue of America\u2019s lack of history and turn it into the very\u00a0a basis of nationhood. To locate such origins, John O\u2019Sullivan and other champions of manifest destiny\u00a0grafted biological and\u00a0territorial imperatives\u2013common among European definitions of nationalism\u2013onto American political culture. The United States was the embodiment of the democratic ideal, they said. Democracy had to be timeless, boundless, and portable. New methods of transportation and communication, the rapidity of the railroad and the telegraph, the rise of the international market economy, and the growth of the American frontier provided shared platforms to\u00a0help Americans think across local identities and reaffirm a\u00a0national character.","rendered":"

The debates over expansion, economics, diplomacy, and manifest destiny in the antebellum decades exposed some of the weaknesses of the American system. Despite a perceived American chauvinism in policies of Native American removal, the Mexican war, and filibustering, the bombast of the period belied a growing malaise among citizens in a society struggling to\u00a0understand its past and deal with its present\u00a0concerns. Manifest destiny attempted to make a virtue of America\u2019s lack of history and turn it into the very\u00a0a basis of nationhood. To locate such origins, John O\u2019Sullivan and other champions of manifest destiny\u00a0grafted biological and\u00a0territorial imperatives\u2013common among European definitions of nationalism\u2013onto American political culture. The United States was the embodiment of the democratic ideal, they said. Democracy had to be timeless, boundless, and portable. New methods of transportation and communication, the rapidity of the railroad and the telegraph, the rise of the international market economy, and the growth of the American frontier provided shared platforms to\u00a0help Americans think across local identities and reaffirm a\u00a0national character.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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