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Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny is defined as a 19th century American belief that the spread of the United States across the continent was inevitable.

(noun)

An example of Manifest Destiny is the belief by President Polk's administration that the U.S. should expand throughout the continent.

See Manifest Destiny in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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the 19th-cent. doctrine postulating the continued territorial expansion of the U.S. as its obvious destiny: term current during the annexation of territories in the Southwest and Northwest and of islands in the Pacific and Caribbean

See Manifest Destiny in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A policy of imperialistic expansion defended as necessary or benevolent.
often Manifest Destiny The 19th-century doctrine that the United States had the right and duty to expand throughout the North American continent.

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