Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny is a term that refers to the desire of United States to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean that began in the mid-nineteenth century, used to justify the U.S. annexation of Oregon, New Mexico, and California and later U.S. involvement in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippines. This notion had both its supporters, claiming that it was America’s right to do so, and its dissidents, who argued that it was just an example of American imperialism. The phrase Manifest Destiny was first introduced into the American vocabulary in 1894 by John O’Sullivan in an article entitled “Our Manifest Destiny,” which was written to justify the annexation of Texas. He stated that opponents to Texas’s annexation were seeking to limit the power of the United States, the
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Approximate Word count = 527
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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