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  2. Manifest destiny - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 January 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 ...

  3. File:Manifest Destiny in the West.pdf - Wikipedia

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  4. History of the United States (1815–1849) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. American frontier - Wikipedia

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    As the nation grew, "Manifest Destiny" became a rallying cry for expansionists in the Democratic Party. In the 1840s, the Tyler and Polk administrations (1841–1849) successfully promoted this nationalistic doctrine.

  6. William Walker (filibuster) - Wikipedia

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    William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary.In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of "manifest destiny", Walker organized unauthorized military expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establishing colonies.

  7. Oregon Country - Wikipedia

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    The goal of the slogan was to rally Southern expansionists (some of whom wanted to annex only Texas in an effort to tip the balance of slave/free states and territories in favor of slavery) to support the effort to annex Oregon Country, appealing to the popular belief in manifest destiny. The British government, meanwhile, sought control of all ...

  8. Time for Your Weekly Tarot Horoscope - AOL

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    Read your weekly tarot card reading horoscope by zodiac sign - aka your Cosmo Tarotscope - for the week of January 20, 2025.

  9. Filibuster (military) - Wikipedia

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    Brown, Charles H. Agents of Manifest Destiny: The Lives and Times of the Filibusters. University of North Carolina Press, 1980. ISBN 0-8078-1361-3. Karp, Matthew (2016). This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of the American Foreign Policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-73725-9.