1994 DBQ Manifest Destiny

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Document A, a political cartoon from Thomas Nast, is a perfect allegory for how the powers of Europe quite literally picked countries right off the map, and added them to their ?grab-bag.' Americans, expressing a worry in this, looked back onto the Monroe Doctrine, which proclaimed that European powers would no longer colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations of the Americas...
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But outside the Americas, a specific policy with regard to China, was first advanced by the United States in the Open Door Notes of 1899. In 1898, the United States had become an East Asian power through the acquisition of the Philippine Islands, and when the partition of China by the European powers and Japan seemed imminent, the United States felt its commercial interests in China threatened...
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Manifest Destiny -- The Intangible Of American History Coining the Phrase In 1845, a democratic leader and influential editor by the name of John L. O'Sullivan gave the movement its name. In an attempt to explain America's thirst for expansion, and to present a defense for America's claim to new territories he wrote: "...	5 / 1296
Manifest Destiny In the1840s, the term Manifest Destiny was used to justify the United States' westward expansion. This expansion took place in areas like Texas and Oregon...	2 / 418
Manifest Destiny The phrase "Manifest Destiny" was first used primarily by Jackson Democrats after 1845 to promote the annexation of much of what is now the Western United States (the Oregon Territory, the Texas Annexation, and the Mexican Cession)...	2 / 524
Manifest destiny Before becoming more familiar with it's origin, the phrase "manifest destiny" to me was the justification used by the former leaders of this country for taking land from the Indians...	2 / 335
Manifest Destiny Introduction Many Americans in the early 1800s believed that it was the destiny of America to control all of the North American continent. This belief was called "Manifest Destiny...	5 / 1216
Manifest Destiny —John L. O’Sullivan Ever since Columbus “sailed the ocean blue” in 1942, American settlers seemed to have developed a proud and headstrong idea that their nation was superior to those of their European ancestors...	3 / 590
imperialsm and manifest destiny The overseas expansion began in 1898 with the Spanish-American war. Now impulsive, and rash to act, America used the explosion of the Maine to ignite a war with Spain...	3 / 789