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Manifest destiny was a phrase that represented the belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny").
Apr 5, 2010 · Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism...
May 28, 2024 · Manifest Destiny, the supposed inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States westward to the Pacific and beyond. Before the American Civil War, Manifest Destiny was used to validate continental acquisitions in the Oregon Country, Texas, New Mexico, and California.
Manifest Destiny was the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America. The ideology of Manifest Destiny inspired a variety of measures designed to remove or destroy the native population.
Jan 17, 2023 · Manifest Destiny was the idea that America had the “divine right” to expand westward, all the way to the Pacific Ocean, regardless of how it affected Native American Indians, Mexicans, and other groups that already claimed the land.
- Randal Rust
At the heart of manifest destiny was the pervasive belief in American cultural and racial superiority. Native Americans had long been perceived as inferior, and efforts to "civilize" them had been widespread since the days of John Smith and Miles Standish .
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Manifest Destiny, in U.S. history, was the belief in the supposed inevitability of the United States expanding its borders westward across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean and beyond. In the 19th century the idea of Manifest Destiny resulted in extensive territorial expansion.
