“… to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.”
– John O’Sullivan, from a newspaper column in the New York Morning News, 1845
The quote above can be most accurately seen to have inspired _______________.
“… to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.”
– John O’Sullivan, from a newspaper column in the New York Morning News, 1845
The quote above can be most accurately seen to have inspired _______________.
The War of 1812
The presidency of Andrew Jackson
The idea of Manifest Destiny
The Panic of 1837