Manifest Destiny

Christie Hacket
Manifest Destiny
2/9/04
Between the years of 1845 and 1848, the United States gained more than 1.2 million square miles of land, an increase of more than sixty percent, mainly due to inspiration from manifest destiny. Manifest Destiny was the belief that many Americans used to justify their expansion west and the removal of every person in their way of doing this. The idea of manifest destiny, first presented by John L. O'Sullivan, described Americans' views that not expanding west was "limiting out greatness, and checking the fulfillment of out manifest destiny to oversp…