AQA GCSE History · 8145
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The belief that the United States was destined, and had a God-given right, to expand across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Revise: Geography of North AmericaManifest Destiny was the belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Journalist John L. O’Sullivan coined the phrase in 1845, giving a memorable name to ideas that already existed.
- Revise: Cultural Encounters
The belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America, used to justify westward expansion and Indigenous displacement.
- Revise: Settlement of the West
The belief that Americans had a right and duty to expand across the continent. Its supporters presented expansion as spreading civilisation, disregarding the rights of Indigenous peoples.
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- Revise: Resolution of 'The Indian Problem'
A nineteenth-century belief that the United States was destined, often understood as divinely intended, to expand across North America.