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...
John L. O’Sullivan, the editor of a magazine that served as an organ for theDemocratic Partyand of a partisan newspaper, first wrote of “manifest destiny” in 1845, but at the time he did not think the words profound. Rather than being “coined,” the phrase was buried halfway throug...
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 ...
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...
• 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 ...
O'Sullivan, writing in the Democratic Review newspaper in July 1845, asserted "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." He was essentially saying the United States possessed a right granted by God to take ...
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...
Isn't manifest destiny really another way to say that certain ideas are worth pushing onto others without their say being considered? It seems as though the concept is very ego driven. Ego of a new government, politicians, etc. I realize that if the US hadn't pursued the concept of manif...