MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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Mississippi River
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Pacific Ocean
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Rocky Mountains
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Great Lakes
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper editor John O’Sullivan coined the term ‘manifest destiny’ to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific.
Detailed explanation-2: -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 across the entire North American continent.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of these is an example of America expanding upon the idea of Manifest Destiny? It became an imperialist nation as it annexed the Hawaiian Islands. How did the Fifteenth Amendment expand democracy in the United States? It gave African American men the right to vote.