manist destiny
John L. O'Sullivan coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny" and used it in James K. Polk's presidential campaign.
manifest destiny
Manifest Destiny was the description used in the mid-19th century for the perceived inevitability of continuing territorial expansion of US. boundaries westward to the Pacific. The phrase was coined by a journalist named John L O'Sullivan.
The 1840s. The term "Manifest Destiny" was coined by John L. O'Sullivan in a newspaper editorial in 1845, but America's expansion to the west was sparked by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.After the War of 1812
Manifest Destiny
John L. O'Sullivan, editor of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, coined the phrase "manifest destiny" in 1845.
It was not just one individual state that played a role in manifest destiny. It was the many states that Polk believed the United States should expand into towards the west. One of the most inflentual states would be Oregon since the term manifest destiny was coined during the Oregon boundary dispute.
The Manifest Destiny lasted for about ten years.
The people of the Mormon Church of more properly, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, settled in Utah after their first leader Joseph Smith was murdered in Missouri. Their Church had been persecuted and they, under Brigham Young, were sure that they were going to found a new Zion in Utah. There is no record of the 1845 slogan coined by the journalist John L. O'Sullivan called the "manifest destiny" that led the Mormons to Utah.
Support westward expansion to the Pacific.
That feeling was expressed as "Manifest Destiny".The concept of American expansion is much older, but John L. O'Sullivan coined the exact term "Manifest Destiny" in the July/August 1845 issue of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review in an article titled "Annexation."[1] It was primarily used by Democrats to support the expansion plans of the Polk Administration,