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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 ...
The Jacksonians favored expansion across the continent, known as manifest destiny, dispossessing American Indians of lands to be occupied by farmers, planters, and slaveholders. Thanks to the annexation of Texas , the defeat of Mexico in war, and a compromise with Britain, the western third of the nation rounded out the continental United ...
Some left-wing American commentators agree with Trump's stance; one example is Sherle Schwenninger, a co-founder of the New America Foundation, who in a 2016 Nation magazine symposium remarked, "Trump would redefine American exceptionalism by bringing an end to the neoliberal/neoconservative globalist project that Hillary Clinton and many ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ]
Identitarianism promoted Manifest Destiny but was also used to oppose Manifest Destiny. An example of this identity-based and racist position was that of John C. Calhoun, Senator from South Carolina, former vice president and future spokesperson for southern secession, in which, in his own words in a speech to Congress on January 4, 1848, he ...