Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny

Introduction

In 1845, John O'Sullivan used the term Manifest Destiny in his article, calling Annexation which meant connecting to a take-over or in which he calls for the Texas connection to the United States. The fate of a vocation entitled the U.S. to take responsibility for Indians and take over their land and forest. The fate of a vocation became a part of American patriotism, literature and politics. God's chosen people of the United States sought to control the size of America and later throughout the world.

Discussion

O'Sullivan was an editor who mentioned the Manifest Destiny in his newspaper article. He suggested the annexation of Texas and also said that by this act, the United States will be able to benefit from the expansion and will grow politically, as well as, a social superpower. He further stated that by expanding, the country will be able to establish civilization. For achieving the Manifest Destiny, annexation of Texas was the most important significant step as it assured the people to help their country grow and expand.

Monroe in 1823 was limited to the preaching of American foreign policy interests of the Western Hemisphere, but in just a couple of the decade, initially isolationist and defensive arguments to make the United States an aggressive sprawled under the North American continent to support them. Expansion began to use the term manifest destiny, for the first time in 1845. The reason of this being was that the divinely appointed task of the United States that it would extend its influence to Canada, Alaska, Mexico and Cuba, as well as, the rest of the West Indian islands.

Canada and U.S. border area near the west settled in the early 1800s a half decades, so that Michigan became a state in 1837, Wisconsin in 1848 and Minnesota in 1858. Settlers ...