The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

Manifest Destiny was a belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent, shaping US policies and ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

according to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "Manifest Destiny was meant as this notion that America was destined to control all of this territory... we have to have all of this land because ...