* 1845 – Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.

* 1845 – In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, United States annexes the Mexican state of Texas, following the Manifest Destiny doctrine.

* Manifest Destiny

The early United States expressed its opposition to Imperialism, at least that distinct from its own Manifest Destiny, in policies such as the Monroe Doctrine.

" " Carey's Iceman story in Manifest Destiny takes place before the recent " Uncanny X-Men " arc that saw Iceman arrive in San Francisco, and follows Iceman as he travels west on a cross-country trip to the X-Men's new home.

) Polk's consistent support for westward expansion — what Democrats would later call " Manifest Destiny "— likely played an important role in his victory, as opponent Henry Clay hedged his position.

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Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War ( 1997 ) online edition

He stopped in St. Louis and met with Senator Thomas Benton, a prominent supporter of settling of the West and a proponent of Manifest Destiny.

Indeed, sentiments of Manifest Destiny were abuzz in this time: in 1867, year of Confederation, US Secretary of State W. H.

* Manifest Destiny and Western Canada Part One

* Manifest Destiny etc Part Two-an alternative view of the Pacific Scandal and the overall binational political context at the time.

John Gast ( painter ) | John Gast, American Progress, ( circa 1872 ) celebrates United States | U. S. romantic nationalism in the form of westward expansion – an idea known as " Manifest Destiny ".

The Ordeal of the Union ( 1947 ) vol 1: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847-1852 ; vol 2.

Notable story arcs of this decade are " Revolution " ( 2000 ), " Eve of Destruction ," " E Is For Extinction " ( 2001 ), " Planet X ," " Here Comes Tomorrow ," " Gifted ," ( 2004 ) X-Men: Phoenix-Endsong, " House of M ," " Decimation " ( 2005 ), Deadly Genesis ( 2005 – 2006 ), " Endangered Species " ( 2007 ), " Messiah Complex " ( 2007 – 2008 ), " Divided We Stand " ( 2008 ), " Manifest Destiny " ( 2008 – 2009 ), X-Infernus, " Messiah War ," " Utopia ," " Nation X " and " Necrosha " ( 2009 ).

* October 21 – Manifest Destiny – Medicine Lodge Treaty: Near Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas, a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders.

* December 2 – Manifest Destiny: U. S. President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.

* December 27 – American journalist John L. O ' Sullivan claims in a newspaper article that the United States have a " Manifest Destiny " to expand their borders.

Democratic nominee James K. Polk ran on a platform that embraced American territorial expansionism, an idea soon to be referred to as Manifest Destiny.

Clay also opposed the Mexican-American War and the " Manifest Destiny " policy of Democrats, which cost him votes in the close 1844 election.

* Morrison, Michael A. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War.

Ordeal of the Union: Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-1852.

In American literature ( e. g. in The Great Gatsby ) moving West has sometimes symbolized gaining freedom, perhaps as an association with the settling of the Old West ( see also Manifest Destiny ).

At the turn of the 19th century, the Southwest, and New Mexico in particular, attracted numerous artists and writers because it remained untouched by national expansion efforts dictated by the American policy of Manifest Destiny.

During the episode " Bart-Mangled Banner ", when the town changes its name to Libertyville to be patriotic after it is claimed Springfield hates America, Apu temporarily changes his children's names to Lincoln, Freedom, Condoleezza, Coke, Pepsi, Manifest Destiny, Apple Pie, and Superman.

Manifest Destiny was always a general notion rather than a specific policy.

Journalist John L. O ' Sullivan, an influential advocate for Jacksonian democracy and a complex character described by Julian Hawthorne as " always full of grand and world-embracing schemes ", wrote an article in 1839, which, while not using the term " Manifest Destiny ", did predict a " divine destiny " for the United States based upon values such as equality, rights of conscience, and personal enfranchisement " to establish on earth the moral dignity and salvation of man ".

In 1928, with the advent of sound film, Pudovkin, Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov signed the Manifest of Sound, in which the possibilities of sound are debated, and always understood as a complement to image.

As president, however, Polk sought compromise and renewed the earlier offer to divide the territory in half along the 49th parallel, to the dismay of the most ardent advocates of Manifest Destiny.

He invited DJ Premier to join Gang Starr and in that same year they released their first single " Words I Manifest " along with the album No More Mr. Nice Guy ( 1989 ).

That audio material was re-mastered and issued along with new audio material read from The Musical Life in 2008 on the Manifest Spirit Records label.

Sections of this memoir, along with other of his writings, have been published in a number of print and online magazines, such as The Manifest, 10, 000 Monkeys, and the Dublin Quarterly.

By 1843 John Quincy Adams, a major supporter, had changed his mind and repudiated Manifest Destiny because it meant the expansion of slavery in Texas.

The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny were closely related ideas: historian Walter McDougall calls Manifest Destiny a corollary of the Monroe Doctrine, because while the Monroe Doctrine did not specify expansion, expansion was necessary in order to enforce the Doctrine.

Some of the followers of Subh-i-Azal state that the Báb actually made Subh-i-Azal his vicegerent because the Báb in a tablet written to Azal stated that he should manifest the remaining paths of the Bayán if Him Whom God shall make Manifest is made manifest out of divine glory during Azal's days.

The monument also provokes controversy, because some allege that underlying it is the theme of racial superiority legitimized by the idea of Manifest Destiny.

Grant ( 1997 ) argues that the Treaty was critical for the emergence of American expansionism ( later known as " Manifest Destiny "), because control of the Natchez and Tombigbee districts were needed for America's dominance of the Southwest.

Some, such as Thomas Jefferson, made explicit that Manifest destiny was not only a belief that the United States was a rejection of the monarchist traditions of Europe in favor of republicanism but Europe's social conditions from its densely packed population.

Manifest Destiny played its most important role in, and was coined during the course of, the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain.

He accused the U. S. of hostile and expansionist motives toward Canada and of desiring to spread its republican ideas over all of North America ( see Manifest Destiny ).

Seward was a firm believer in Manifest Destiny, primarily for its commercial advantages to the U. S. Seward expected British Columbia to seek annexation to the U. S. and thought Britain might accept this in exchange for the Alabama claims.

Seward was a firm believer in Manifest Destiny, primarily for its commercial advantages to the U. S. Seward expected British Columbia to seek annexation to the U. S. and thought Britain might accept this in exchange for the Alabama claims.

The Whigs generally opposed Manifest Destiny and expansion, saying the nation should build up its cities.

The Minnesota flag has come under increasing criticism both for its poor design and its image in the seal of a farmer with his gun watching a Native American flee the land, which many feel is a depiction of Manifest Destiny and the inevitability of land being procured by white settlers.

Soulé was very favorable to the expansion of Southern influence outside of the current Union of States ; he held a plain belief in Manifest Destiny and foretold " absorption of the entire continent and its island appendages " by the U. S. Mason's Virginian roots predisposed him to the sentiments expressed in the document, but he later regretted his actions.

Manifest, or the Melbourne Anime Festival, is a three day fan convention focusing on the art of anime and manga, Japanese video games, East Asian culture, and its fandom held annually in Melbourne, Australia.

Some historians have argued that the theory was embraced readily as an outgrowth of Manifest Destiny, the idea that the United States had a mission to expand, spreading its form of democracy and freedom.