Dems used the phrase "Manifest Destiny" as a way to support Polk's policies of expansion. Abraham Lincoln and other Whigs supported the expansion of the economy, as did Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and ...
British automaton maker Paul Spooner is featured in the latest release from Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, and it does not ...
His justification for expansion seemed to him self-evident ... civilization and religion?" The idea of Manifest Destiny, which held that America had the right and even the duty to extend its ...
As historian Anders Stephanson writes in his book about Manifest Destiny, it became “a catchword for the idea of a providentially or historically sanctioned right to continental expansionism.” This ...
for the avowed object of ... checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
His justification for expansion seemed to him self-evident ... civilization and religion?" The idea of Manifest Destiny, which held that America had the right and even the duty to extend its ...