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  1. Apr 5, 2010 · Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, expressed the philosophy that drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion. ... An 1842 treaty between Great Britain and the United States partially ...

  2. May 12, 2023 · A recap of ‘Destiny’ and ‘Once Upon a Time,’ episodes 9 and 10 of season 3 of Hulu’s ‘The Great,’ starring Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great and Nicholas Hoult as Emperor Peter.

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  3. Apr 17, 2024 · The term Manifest Destiny was coined in the July–August 1845 issue of The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review by its editor, John L. O’Sullivan. He expanded the idea in the New York Morning News in December, invoking “the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great ...

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  4. Dec 15, 2009 · Westward migration was an essential part of the republican project, he argued, and it was Americans’ “manifest destiny” to carry the “great experiment of liberty” to the edge of the ...

  5. 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"). The belief was rooted in American exceptionalism and Romantic nationalism, implying the inevitable ...

  6. Jan 17, 2023 · Manifest Destiny Summary. Although the desire to expand westward existed when the first explorers set foot in the New World, it was not given a name until 1845. Advocating for the United States to annex Texas, newspaper editor John O’Sullivan said, “Annex the Republic of Texas, not only because Texas desired this, but because it was our ...

  7. 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. US President James K. Polk (1845-1849) is the leader most associated with Manifest Destiny.

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