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

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 ...

Manifest Destiny was “a belief on the part of some Americans, in a particular moment in American history, that God intended this country to expand from one coast to the other,” historian Alan ...