The term of ‘Manifest Destiny’ first appeared in a newspaper article on the annexation of Texas in edition from July/August of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review in 1845. The author, John L. O’Sullivan used it to describe what majority of Americans at the time believed was ...
John O’Sullivan, shown here in a 1874 Harper’s Weekly sketch, coined the phrase “manifest destiny” in an 1845 newspaper article.Wikimedia. Although called into name in 1845, manifest destiny was a widely held but vaguely defined belief that dated back to the founding of the nation. Firs...
Simply defined, manifest destiny refers to the 19th-century doctrine that the expansion of the United States across the continent was inevitable, justified, and benevolent. The phrase “manifest destiny” first appeared in the July 1845 Democratic Review article “Annexation” by editor John O’Sulli...
Manifest Destiny, the supposed inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States westward to the Pacific and beyond. Before the American Civil War, Manifest Destiny was used to validate continental acquisitions i
An essay or paper on Manifest Destiny: Settlement of the American West. In 1851, newspaper editor John Soule wrote an editorial containing the famous quotation, "Go West young man, and grow with your country." Soule and others saw the West as a wild
The war with Mexico and the annexations of Mexican territory that followed were believed by most Americans to be the result of their "manifest destiny." The term is generally attributed to John L. O'Sullivan, a Democratic newspaper editor from New York. O'Sullivan's conception of manifest ...
内容提示: Manifest Destiny 2010 年 03 月 30 日 14:29 Manifest Destiny is a phrase that expressed the belief that the United States had a mission to expand, spreading its form of democracy and freedom. Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only good, but that it was...
Manifest Destiny was a term that came to describe a widespread belief in the middle of the 19th century that the United States had a special mission to expand westward. The specific phrase was originally used in print by a journalist, John L. O'Sullivan, when writing about the proposed anne...
• John O'Sullivan who was a newspaper editor in the United States in 1845 first applied the words in his article about the annexation of Texas (proposal}.• The exact phrase that he used was “It is America's manifest destiny to overspread the continent.”• Expansion was suggested ...