MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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A newspaper journalist who first used the term Manifest Destiny.
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A Congressman who argued Manifest Destiny was wrong and the US should stop expanding.
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A US president who agreed to fight a war with Mexico to get more land and fulfill the idea of Manifest Destiny.
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A pioneer on the Oregon Trail who convinced others to travel west because he believed in Manifest Destiny.
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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: -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-3: -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-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 1837, he founded and edited The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, based in Washington. It espoused the more radical forms of Jacksonian Democracy and the cause of a democratic, American literature.