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27th December 1845: Manifest Destiny introduced in a newspaper column by John L. O’Sullivan

27th December 2023
Tagged as: Ameria, American West, Andrew Jackson, Expansion, Manifest Destiny, Oregon, Texas, United States, USA

Manifest Destiny was a belief that the United States had a divinely-inspired right to expand across North America, and that this expansion was inevitable.

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27th December 1845: Manifest Destiny introduced in a newspaper column by John L. O’Sullivan

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