America Expanding

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America Expanding

• Manifest Destiny

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Manifest Destiny

• National destiny or purpose
• Explains a sense of mission
• Used by leaders in the 1840s

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Manifest Destiny

• United States was growing very quickly
• American thought it was their destiny to extend
  freedom to others

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Manifest Destiny

• Our manifest destiny is to overspread the
  continent allotted by Providence for the free
  development of our yearly multiplying millions.
• John L. O'Sullivan, 1845