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  2. Adams’ treaty “was a crucial step in fulfilling America’s Manifest Destiny,” expanding U.S. territory for the first time from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, American History Central ...

  3. Manifest destiny - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. Cultural belief of 19th-century American expansionists For other uses, see Manifest Destiny (disambiguation). American Progress (1872) by John Gast is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Columbia, a personification of the United States, is shown leading ...

  4. Polk, Trump, and Manifest Destiny

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    The 11th president transformed America in a single term. Trump lacks the discipline to do the same. ... One hundred and eighty years after Manifest Destiny had its vogue, Trump is back with a new ...

  5. Trump vows to take back Panama Canal, talks of 'Manifest ...

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    Manifest Destiny, a phrase originally coined in the mid-1800s, was the belief in a God-ordained right of the U.S. to expand its control throughout North America, and was used to justify the ...

  6. Manifest Destiny (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Manifest destiny was a widely held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America. Manifest Destiny may also refer to:

  7. Expansionism - Wikipedia

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    In American politics after the War of 1812, Manifest Destiny was the ideological movement during America's expansion West. The movement incorporated expansionist nationalism with continentalism, with the Mexican War in 1846–1848 being attributed to it. Despite championing American settlers and traders as the people whom the government's ...

  8. American exceptionalism - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, McGuffey saw America as having a future mission to bring liberty and democracy to the world." [21] Newspaper reporting the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii in 1898. American exceptionalism has fueled American expansion through the ideology of manifest destiny. [22]

  9. American frontier - Wikipedia

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    He wrote: "The Kansas spirit is the American spirit double distilled. It is a new grafted product of American individualism, American idealism, American intolerance. Kansas is America in microcosm." [237] Scholars have compared the emergence of democracy in America with other countries, regarding the frontier experience. [238]