manifest destiny

n.1. A policy of imperialistic expansion defended as necessary or benevolent.2. often Manifest Destiny The 19th-century doctrine that the United States had the right and duty to expand throughout the North American continent.

Manifest Destiny

n (Historical Terms) (esp in the 19th-century US) the belief that the US was a chosen land that had been allotted the entire North American continent by God

Man′ifest Des′tiny

n. the 19th-century belief that it was inevitable for the U.S. to expand to the Pacific coast. [1835–45]

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manifest destiny - a policy of imperialism rationalized as inevitable (as if granted by God)imperialism - a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries

manifest destiny

manifest destiny,

belief held by many Americans in the 1840s that the United States was destined to expand across the continent, by force, as used against Native Americans, if necessary. The controversy over slavery further fueled expansionism, as the North and South each wanted the nation to admit new states that supported its section's economic, political, and slave policies. By the end of the 19th cent., this belief was used to support expansion in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

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noun a policy of imperialism rationalized as inevitable (as if granted by God)

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