MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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A senator who believed in Manifest Destiny
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An old man who did stuff
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A British political commentator and columnist who coined the phrase Manifest Destiny in 1845
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An evangelist who professed that God wanted Americans to conquer all of North America
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In 1845, O’Sullivan rallied support for the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States. He claimed that it was Americans’ “manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer. The term “manifest destiny” was first used by journalist John O’Sullivan in the New York Democratic Review in 1845. O’Sullivan wrote in favor of the U.S. annexing Texas, a region that the U.S. recognized as independent of any other nation. (Mexico maintained that the region was Mexican territory.)
Detailed explanation-4: -O’Sullivan coined the term Manifest Destiny as he argued for an inevitable expansion of the United States across the North American continent.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.