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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 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 ...
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The Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner's Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations.
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 ...
The 11th president transformed America in a single term. Trump lacks the discipline to do the same.
The United States was the supreme demonstration of democracy. However, the Union did not exist just to make men free in America. It had an even greater mission—to make them free everywhere. By the mere force of its example, America would bring democracy to an undemocratic world. [71]
Coined phrase manifest destiny John Louis O'Sullivan (November 15, 1813 – March 24, 1895) was an American columnist, editor, and diplomat who coined the term " manifest destiny " in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States. [ 1 ]
The new generation stresses gender, ethnicity, professional categorization, and the contrasting victor and victim legacies of manifest destiny and colonial expansion. Most [ citation needed ] professional historians operating within the au courant postmodern paradigm now criticize Turner's frontier thesis and the theme of American exceptionalism .