manifest destiny
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Its coasts were settled separately, unlike the broad settler-driven western expansion of America’s manifest destiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Tucked into his speech was a mention of the 19th Century doctrine of "manifest destiny" – the idea that the US was divinely ordained to expand its territory across the continent, spreading American ideals.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
George Washington, though omitted from this equation, had always been present in Borglum’s vision of a sculpture that would represent the manifest destiny that had shaped the United States.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2025
In high school history classes this painting, is often used as a way of pictorially representing "manifest destiny," since it shows American settlers moving west.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
But because ambition succeeds best when disguised by virtue, he wanted to furnish the Alliance with an animating ideology—a manifest destiny, as it were, or mission civilisatrice.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
