How are imperialism and Manifest Destiny dissimilar?

Manifest Destiny in the 1840s and American imperialism in the 1890s-1900s were both expansionist ideologies based on a belief in white, Anglo-Saxon superiority, a faith in American ... Like Manifest Destiny, imperialism was rooted in the belief in Anglo-Saxon superiority. .... But the execution of their ideology was different. read more

Manifest destiny and Imperialism are very similar except that Manifest Destiny was the expansive territorial thought process that emerged from a democratic political system versus that which emerged from the aristocratic one. read more

I have to agree with #3 that Manifest Destiny is a belief that, I think, most Americans still subscribe too, while many of the same people would be horrified by the type of imperialism that went on in Africa and other places during the 17th and 18th centuries. read more