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Research Topics on: manifest destiny

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Encyclopedia Articles on: manifest destiny

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  • Manifest Destiny
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    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...
     
  • Mexican War
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1960); R. E. Ruiz, The Mexican War: Was It Manifest Destiny? (1963); D. M. Fletcher, The Diplomacy of...Polks War (1974), G. N. Brack, Mexico Views Manifest Destiny (1975), and J. M. McPherson, Battle Cry of...
     
  • United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...to the Pacific was fervently proclaimed as the "manifest destiny" of the United States. Annexation of the Republic...United States gained its Pacific Northwest, and "manifest destiny" was virtually fulfilled. In California the discovery...
     
  • Geopolitics
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...used to justify German expansion during the Nazi era. Many expansionist justifications, including the American "manifest destiny" as well as the German Lebensraum, are based on geopolitical considerations. Geopolitics is different from political...
     
  • Nationalism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...rise to the problem of irredentism . In the United States, where nationalism had evinced itself in the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, national unity was maintained at the cost of the Civil War. In the latter half of the 19th cent., there were...