Manifest+Destiny+*

=__Manifest Destiny__= toc The Manifest Destiny is the belief that the US was destined and ordained by the God of Christianity to expand the US from the Atlantic Seaborn to the Pacific Ocean. The Manifest Destiny was told so widely to include all of North America,Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Central America. Advocates of the Manifest believed it wasn't only good, but obvious & certain. "Manifest Destiny" was originally a political catch phrase, and eventually became a historical term.

__Contex and Interpretations__
The term, "Manifest Destiny", combined a belief in expansionism and other popular ideas of the era, such as American exceptionalism & Roman nationalsim. Writers primarily focused on American Expansionism, while other saw a broder expression in the term which was America's "mission" in the world. The Manifest Destiny has gained many meanings over the years. In politics, it was used to describe that American government was predetermined to set political authority. A journalists by the names of John L. O'Sullivian wrote on article in 1839, in the article he did not specifically use the term, "Manifest Destiny, but predicted a "divine destiny".

__Texas & Mexico__
The Manifest Destiny proved more consequential to the United States' relations with Mexico. Texas declared independence from Mexico in 1836, and soon after wanted to join the US as a state. This was the perfect process of expansion that had been promoted from Jeffreson to O' Sullvian.Presidents Jackson and Van Buren declined Texas's offer, because slavery was tearing the Democratic party apart.

__**All Oregon**__
The Manifest Destiny played the most important role in the Oregon boundary disagreement with GB. The Anglo-American Convention of 1818 wanted jointed occupation of Oregon. Thousands of Americans had already migrated in the 1840's by the Oregon Trail. The British rejected the porposal to divide it among the 49th parallel, but instead proposed that it be divied farther, along the Columbia River. Supporters of Manifest Destiny protested and wanted the whole countryall of the Oregon country to be added up to the Alaska linr/

__Filibustering in the South__
In 1848, after the Mexican-American War ended, many disagreed over expanding slavery made expanding the US too divisive to officiall be governmwnt policy. Most Northeners were becoming against what they thought was Southern slave owners expanding slavery at any cost. Without government support, supporters of the Manifest Destiny turned to military filibusturing(person who takes part in military invasions into countries without permission). The main target for this was Latin America, but they soon moves to Canada in the 1830's.

__Later Usage__
From the nineteenth to twentieth, the phrase //Manifest Destiny// lessend in usage as expanding the territory stopped being promoted as America's "destiny". Under T. Roosevelt, the United States' role was defined in the Roosevelt Corollary and the Monroe Doctorine. In Woodrow Wilson's message to congress in 1920, it was the only time a persident had used the phrase in an annual address. Wilson's believed that the Manifest Destiny was refusing expansionsm, but an endorsment of self-determination. Manifest Destiny, today, is used to describe a period in American history.

__Refrences__
"Manifest Destiny"(4/13/09)[]

"Manifest Destiny Map"(4/13/09) []

"American West:Manifest Destiny"(4/13/09) []