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.
Manifest Destiny: Selected full-text books and articles
Manifest Destiny and the Expansion of America
ABC-Clio, 2007
Manifest Destiny and Empire: American Antebellum Expansionism
Texas A&M University Press, 1997
Manifest Destiny: Many 19th-Century Americans Believed Their Young Nation Was Destined to Extend the Benefits of Freedom and Opportunity across the Continent-From Sea to Shining Sea
The New American, Vol. 19, No. 15, July 28, 2003
Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice
Indiana University Press, 2015
Librarian's tip: Chap. 7 "The Historical Dimension of Manifest Destiny"
Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821
University of Alabama Press, 1997
Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America
University of North Carolina Press, 2002
American Narcissism: The Myth of National Superiority
Algora, 2006
Librarian's tip: Chap. 8 "Manifest Destiny and Continental Expansion"
United States Expansionism and British North America, 1775-1871
University of North Carolina Press, 1988
Librarian's tip: Part 2 "The Era of Manifest Destiny, 1815-1860"
An Interpretive History of American Foreign Relations
Dorsey Press, 1974 (Revised edition)
Librarian's tip: Part II "Manifest Destiny, 1816-1860"
History and Progress: In Search of the European and American Mind
Praeger Publishers, 1989
Librarian's tip: Chap. 9 "Frontier and Manifest Destiny"
The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
Oxford University Press, vol.1, 1991
Librarian's tip: Chap. 20 "Anti-annexation as Manifest Destiny"
A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict during the Mexican-American War
University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Librarian's tip: Chap. 6 "Atrocity: The Wage of Manifest Destiny"
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