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The 47 pages that link to Manifest Destiny, each with the reason it gives.

• Louisiana PurchaseRelated: The purchase became an early precedent later invoked to support continental expansion.

• American frontierRelated: It supplied a popular justification for territorial expansion and settlement.

• Western filmRelated: Western films often translate this expansionist belief into stories of settlement.

• Mexican–American WarRelated: Expansionist arguments helped justify acquiring Texas and pursuing territory west of it.

• American exceptionalismRelated: It turned claims of national purpose into a rationale for continental expansion.

• Lewis and Clark ExpeditionRelated: Later expansionist narratives used the expedition as an early symbol of westward exploration.

• Oregon TrailNarrower topic: This expansionist ideology framed migration along the trail as national progress.

• Trail of TearsNarrower topic: It supplied a broader expansionist rationale for taking Indigenous homelands.

• Mexican CessionRelated: Expansionist politics helped shape public support for acquiring the territory.

• Indian RemovalRelated: Expansionist ideology helped legitimize taking Indigenous homelands.

• James K. PolkNarrower topic: Polk’s expansionist program became one of the clearest expressions of this ideology.

• The American RenaissanceRelated: Expansion sharpened questions of national identity and slavery that recur in the period’s writing.

• The American DreamCompared with: Expansion promised opportunity to some while dispossessing Indigenous peoples.

• United States foreign policyRelated: Continental expansion joined territorial growth to ideas about national purpose.

• Westward expansionRelated: Its rhetoric framed territorial growth as a national mission.

• Alaska PurchaseRelated: The purchase extended U.S. territorial expansion beyond the continent’s contiguous landmass.

• Frederick Jackson TurnerRelated: Turner interpreted expansion’s effects on society, while Manifest Destiny supplied a prominent rationale for expansion.

• Oregon TreatyRelated: Expansionist politics raised pressure to secure the Pacific Northwest without war.

• Texas annexationRelated: Expansionist arguments helped build support for adding Texas to the United States.

• Oregon CountryRelated: The ideology helped justify U.S. migration and territorial claims in Oregon Country.

• Hudson River SchoolRelated: Western landscapes could suggest both the promise and the ideological claims of territorial expansion.

• William WalkerNarrower topic: Expansionist rhetoric supplied a wider rationale for Walker’s interventionist ambitions.

• John C. FrémontNarrower topic: This expansionist ideology gave Frémont's western surveys broad political meaning.

• United States territorial expansionRelated: Its rhetoric helped frame continental expansion as a national mission.

• American imperialismRelated: Its language of providential expansion helped frame continental conquest as a national mission.

• Mormon TrailNarrower topic: The trail unfolded amid westward expansion, though its migrants sought refuge and religious autonomy.

• Western fictionRelated: Western stories have dramatized, celebrated, or questioned the ideology behind territorial expansion.

• William H. SewardNarrower topic: Seward’s expansionist diplomacy operated within a broader culture of continental ambition.

• Frontier mythRelated: Its expansionist rhetoric cast settlement as a providential national mission.

• History of the United StatesRelated: This expansionist ideology framed territorial growth as national purpose.

• Indian WarsRelated: This expansionist ideology helped justify the seizure of Indigenous homelands in the West.

• Thomas ColeCompared with: Cole’s warnings about unchecked development complicate the era’s confidence in expansion.

• American WestRelated: It supplied a powerful rationale for westward expansion and Indigenous dispossession.

• Blood MeridianRelated: The novel’s borderland violence unfolds amid the ideology of continental expansion.

• Gateway ArchRelated: The monument’s celebratory imagery is often read through the ideology of continental expansion.

• Oregon boundary disputeRelated: Expansionist ideology helped make control of Oregon a prominent American political demand.

• Zebulon PikeNarrower topic: Pike’s reports helped make western lands more legible to a nation later driven by continental expansion.

• Frederic RemingtonRelated: Remington's frontier imagery circulated amid the expansionist ideas that shaped public memory of the West.

• Kit CarsonRelated: The ideology framed the territorial expansion and military campaigns in which Carson participated.

• Ezra MeekerRelated: Meeker’s pioneer commemorations often presented westward migration within this expansionist narrative.

• Genocide of Indigenous peoplesRelated: Its expansionist claims helped justify dispossession and violence against Native nations.

• Lewis CassNarrower topic: Cass’s territorial administration and expansionist politics unfolded within this broader movement.

• WesternRelated: Its expansionist assumptions inform stories about settlement, conquest, and contested land.

• Benjamin BonnevilleCompared with: Bonneville's explorations supplied geographic knowledge later absorbed into expansionist narratives, though his expedition was not itself a political doctrine.

• ExpansionismBroader topic: It framed westward growth as a national mission.

• Pierre-Jean De SmetRelated: Western migration and U.S. expansion reshaped the communities among whom De Smet worked.

• United States of AmericaRelated: The ideology justified expansion that reshaped the country's borders and displaced Indigenous peoples.