| Benton was a standard bearer for what came to be called Manifest Destiny, the idea that the United States was justly fated to fill the continent. |
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| Indeed British Columbia had become a Canadian province on July 20, 1871, which marked a Canadian version of Manifest Destiny. |
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| Manifest Destiny claimed the God-given right of the United States to the entire North American continent. |
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| Manifest Destiny meant that the plains would be populated with yeoman farmers. |
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| There were many stand-outs, including the tearful ballad Jordan, the political Manifest Destiny Part 1 and thrilling rocker Until the Sun Comes. |
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| Where no more is taken than is needed, versus a new society that takes everything, at all costs, in the name of Manifest Destiny. |
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| The expanding American frontier to the south brought with it the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. |
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| It may have been less turbulent than the Manifest Destiny of its neighbours to the south, but it was not necessarily any less successful. |
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| These heroes have served culturally and historically to personify and embody Manifest Destiny, the best of America's imaginary frontier in the flesh. |
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| The fever pitch of American Manifest Destiny, with Texas annexed and war declared against Mexico, led Canadian legislators in the end to vote in June 1846 for a new Militia Act. |
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| He began recruiting from amongst American supporters of slavery and the Manifest Destiny Doctrine, mostly inhabitants of Kentucky and Tennessee. |
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| But why would Canadians want anything to do with Manifest Destiny? |
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| British regulars, Canadian militia, French and English Canadian local forces like La Regiment des Voltigeurs from Quebec combined to repel American Manifest Destiny from Quebec and the Maritimes to Niagara. |
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| Nevertheless, in the era of Manifest Destiny, his filibustering project was popular in the southern and western United States and the jury took eight minutes to acquit him. |
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| The end result of manifest destiny, racism and unrestrained capitalism has led to a public that yearns to be fooled. |
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| The idea of American exceptionalism was expressed domestically in the doctrine of manifest destiny. |
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| This goal was compatible with the doctrine of manifest destiny, and Spencer's Social Darwinism. |
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| The war with Mexico was also a product of the United States' belief of manifest destiny. |
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| The very idea of manifest destiny encouraged men and women to dream big dreams. |
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| Chapters on manifest destiny and the Indian wars trace Ambrose's own travels across the country. |
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| The first paper draws our attention to the concept of manifest destiny and current war discourse in the American context. |
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| Americans looked to the western lands as an opportunity for large amounts of free land, for growth of industry, and manifest destiny. |
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| But in truth, you know, that was really the birth of what would become manifest destiny and the western expansion. |
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| That worked in post-Puritan America and led to the doctrine of manifest destiny and some positive missions. |
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| The belief in manifest destiny had opened up North America as far as the West Coast, and after the Civil War the nation had come of age. |
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| The me generation thought they had manifest destiny on their side when they dedicated their lives to blindly pursuing personal happiness at the expense of others. |
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| A land of opportunity, manifest destiny and righteous moral whatsis. |
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| Neither he nor Vattimo mentions manifest destiny or the white man's burden, but these ideas lurk disturbingly close to the surface of their urbanely arrogant prose. |
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| A sense of manifest destiny began to attach itself to their progress. |
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| The concept of manifest destiny first entered American political parlance in the 1840s, when continental expansionism first became physically sustainable. |
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| In my experience, secular Americans are as likely as religious Americans to believe that we are the rightful beneficiaries of some kind of manifest destiny. |
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| This is not to be confused with utopianism, nor with a doctrine of manifest destiny, whether national or global, nor with a theocratic theory of the state. |
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| With the acquisition of a 34-acre property from the Cardone Family Trust, Medina Business Park's manifest destiny is now complete. |
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| He wants to foreground Luminism as an expression of manifest destiny but also aims to stake his own claim to the American landscape painting. |
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