MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Manifest Destiny
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Stretchy Time
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Westward Expansion
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LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO (to the pacific ocean)
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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: -The philosophy describing the necessary expansion of the nation westward was called Manifest Destiny; the belief that it was our duty to settle the continent, conquer and prosper.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term Manifest Destiny was first used in 1845 by John L. O’Sullivan, editor of the United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, in an essay on why the United States was justified in annexing Texas. He was protesting European, specifically French and British, intervention in the United States’ affairs.