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MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

MANIFEST DESTINY

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In the passage below, O’Sullivan describes “Manifest Destiny” as the right of:"It is time now for opposition to the annexation of Texas to cease ____ Other nations have undertaken to intrude themselves into it, between us and the proper parties to the case, in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our Manifest Destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions."John L. O’Sullivan, United States Magazine and Democratic Review, July 1845
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other nations to oppose the actions of the United States
B
New Mexico and California to become independent republics
C
Texas to become part of the United States
D
the United States to expand its territory across North America to the Pacific Ocean
Explanation: 

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: -John Louis O’Sullivan, a popular editor and columnist, articulated the long-standing American belief in the God-given mission of the United States to lead the world in the transition to democracy. He called this America’s “manifest destiny.” This idea motivated wars of American expansion.

Detailed explanation-3: -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 experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.”

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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