Manifest destiny was the belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny").

2025年3月24日 · Manifest Destiny, in U.S. history, the supposed inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States westward to the Pacific and beyond.

2010年4月5日 · Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism...

2023年1月17日 · Manifest Destiny was the idea that America had the “divine right” to expand westward, all the way to the Pacific Ocean, regardless of how it affected Native American Indians, Mexicans, and other groups that had already claimed the land.

List of major causes and effects of Manifest Destiny. The belief in the supposed inevitability of U.S. territorial expansion westward to the Pacific Ocean and beyond was used to justify acquisitions in the Oregon Country, Texas, New Mexico, and California and later U.S. involvement in Alaska, Hawaii, and other areas.

At the heart of manifest destiny was the pervasive belief in American cultural and racial superiority. Native Americans had long been perceived as inferior, and efforts to "civilize" them had been widespread since the days of John Smith and Miles Standish .

Manifest Destiny, in U.S. history, was the belief in the supposed inevitability of the United States expanding its borders westward across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean and beyond. In the 19th century the idea of Manifest Destiny resulted in extensive territorial expansion.

The painting celebrates the belief that the American West held both unspoiled beauty and infinite promise for a better future. It advocates Manifest Destiny, the belief that it was America’s divinely ordained mission to settle and civilize the West – an alliance between nation-building and religion. What can we learn about the ideals ...

2019年7月21日 · Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century American ideology which stated that the US was destined (by the Almighty God) to be a powerful nation. Therefore, many Americans held the belief that the U.S. had to expand its territories westward and dominate the entire of …

2025年1月22日 · The term “Manifest Destiny” encapsulates the 19th-century belief that the United States was destined—by God, fate, or natural law—to expand its territory across the entire North American continent.