MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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the death of the Mormon leader, Joseph Smith
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the Mormon migration to Utah to escape persecution
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the Book of Mormon
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the Second Great Awakening
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Detailed explanation-1: -The idea that the United States would extend from “sea to shining sea” is known as Manifest Destiny. A newspaperman named John O’Sullivan first used this phrase in 1845, but many Americans had the idea long before O’Sullivan wrote his newspaper article.
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: -Before the American Civil War the idea of Manifest Destiny was used to validate continental acquisitions in the Oregon Country, Texas, New Mexico, and California. Later it was used to justify the purchase of Alaska and annexation of Hawaii.
Detailed explanation-4: -It can not be tied to a date, event or even a specific period of time. Manifest Destiny existed and still exists as the philosophy that embraces American history as a whole. Manifest Destiny is an intangible ideology that created American history.