HIST 1376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Protestant Reformation, H. L. Mencken, Calvinism
8 Feb 2018
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American are exceptionalism - americans are inclined to consider the u. s as a country with special mission, purpose, destiny. This sense of mission has taken many different forms in. Manifest destiny the expansion of u. s eventually to west coast and later through paci c to asia. 20th century, world war i to make the world safer democracy. Cold war save the world from communism. The americans" sense of mission was originated in europe and was brought to this country by and implanted here by the rst. Elizabethan english men who rst became interested in american colonies had a generalized sense of mission. They thought they were doing something good for england, protestantism , for god. When the rst successful english colony was founded in north. The 17th century puritans exaggerated most english qualities - They shared all the english values and beliefs but they pushed everything further.
