What is the exact meaning of the words manifest destiny?

Answer 1

The term manifest destiny has been various moments throughout the history of nations. Manifest Destiny portraits the divine plan of a countries, nations, or even individual's predetermined future in greatness.

Answer 2

Manifest Destiny

The term manifest destiny means the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.

In short, it means the ideal that America would be the most powerful country in the world.

It also means "God given right." This was believed by many people, and the idea behind it was the right to expand the US nation and take land.

Answer 3

Manifest Destiny is a term that was used in the 19th century to designate the belief that the United States was destined, even divinely ordained, to expand across the North American Continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 4

it means i want it now. In history it is the belief that the United State's destiny was to expand from coast to coast across the whole continent (North America). American justification for American westward expansion.

Answer 5

It was a 19th century American belief to have the right and duty to expand across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was used by the Democrats in the 1840's to justify the war against Mexico. The term soon fell into disuse

Answer 6

Idea that it was the US should expand to include all of Northern American (extreme radicals believed in spreading even further).

Answer 7

The expansion of white Ammericans across the continent that was inevitable and ordainted by God

Answer 8

obvious fate

Answer 9

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