Dictionary definition: Manifest Destiny

Teaching about Manifest Destiny: Clarifying the Concept.
The Social Studies;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... mission when he coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny." John L. O'Sullivan was an ardent ... claimed that it was the nation's "manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole ... Puerto Rico. The concept or emotion of manifest destiny expressed itself in many ways. The ...

Article: Manifest destiny adapted for 1990s' war discourse: ...
Sociology of Religion;  December 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... America. The discursive framework of Manifest Destiny, a 19th Century political doctrine ... not coined as a term until 1845, Manifest Destiny drew upon centuries old themes of ... century, again relying overtly on Manifest Destiny in the Spanish-American war, President ...

Article: 'Manifest destiny' used to justify America's ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  December 25, 2005 ;     683 words ... ... Democratic Review that it was America's "manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole ... s phrase quickly caught on, and "manifest destiny" was soon invoked by countless politicians ... mellifluous phrase for America's "manifest destiny." Mexicans called it "Yanqui ...

Article: Manifest Destiny: Mistress of Manifest ...
The Texas Observer;  August 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Manifest Destiny: Mistress of Manifest Destiny; A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807 ... argue with Linda S. Hudson's claim in Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807 ...

September 11 and America's War on Terrorism: a new manifest ...
The American Indian Quarterly;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... religion was America's divine "manifest destiny" to spread democracy and true civilization ... expansionist domestic policies under manifest destiny show an interrelated process of coevolution ... on Terrorism, have ignited a new manifest destiny--America's mission to defuse ...

Article: Divine destruction.(belief in manifest destiny)
Earth Island Journal;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... John O'Sullivan coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny," an expression that would remain ... territories. Indeed, the phrase "Manifest Destiny" implied that America's expansion ... precipitated talk about and belief in Manifest Destiny, however, were not necessarily the ...

Article: Manifest Destiny or MUSCLE FLEXING?
Cobblestone;  December 1, 2000 ;     614 words ... ... Star that it was the "right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole ... The United States used this idea of manifest destiny to rationalize its attempts to annex ... conflict with the Mexican government. Manifest destiny was one of the major reasons for American ...