USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The U.S acquired all its territory peacefully from countries that wanted to sell land. The “manifest destiny” mindset existed before the phrase “manifest destiny” was ever use.

Detailed explanation-2: -With its triumph in the Mexican-American War, the United States seemingly realized its Manifest Destiny by gaining an immense domain (more than 525, 000 square miles [1, 360, 000 square km] of land), including present-day Arizona, California, western Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

Detailed explanation-3: -Other historians have emphasized that “manifest destiny” was always contested; many endorsed the idea, but the large majority of Whigs and many prominent Americans (such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant) rejected the concept.

Detailed explanation-4: -Manifest Destiny was the 19th-century belief that it was the divine mission of the United States to expand westward across North America. People who held that belief thought that it was the duty of Americans to spread democratic and Protestant ideals across the continent.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.