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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 ...
Major exponents of the theme have been James Monroe (Monroe Doctrine), Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk (Manifest Destiny), Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address), Theodore Roosevelt (Roosevelt Corollary), Woodrow Wilson (Wilsonianism), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman (Truman Doctrine), Jimmy Carter (Carter Doctrine), Ronald Reagan (Reagan ...
Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2319-8. Nevins, Allan (1947). Ordeal of the Union: Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847–1852. New York, Scribner. Niven, John (1988). John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography. Louisiana State ...
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.
[6] [7] As a term in political science , American exceptionalism refers to the United States' status as a global outlier both in good and bad ways. Critics of the concept claim that the idea of American exceptionalism suggests that the US is better than other countries , has a superior culture, or has a unique mission to transform the planet ...
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (also known as Westward Ho) is a 20-by-30-foot (6.1 m × 9.1 m) painted mural displayed behind the western staircase of the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol Building.
During Donald Trump's inaugural speech from the Capitol, he said, "We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet ...
Until 1898 American foreign policy was simple: to fulfill the country's manifest destiny and to remain free of entanglements overseas. [77] International issues such as war, imperialism, and the national role in world affairs played a role in the 1900 presidential election. [78]