Concept information
Preferred term
Manifest Destiny
Definition(s)
- Belief, held chiefly in the mid- and late 19th c., that it was the destiny of the United States to expand its territory over all North America and to extend and enhance its political, social and economic influences [Random House]
Synonym(s)
- Messianism, political, United States
- Political messianism, United States
Notation
- 111568
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-PV7721SR-B
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