KnowraManifest DestinyLinked fromLinked fromThe 47 pages that link to Manifest Destiny, each with the reason it gives.All 47Broader topic 1Related 34Narrower topic 9Compared with 3Louisiana 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.Mexican CessionRelated: Expansionist politics helped shape public support for acquiring the territory.Indian RemovalRelated: Expansionist ideology helped legitimize taking Indigenous homelands.The American RenaissanceRelated: Expansion sharpened questions of national identity and slavery that recur in the period’s writing.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.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.Western fictionRelated: Western stories have dramatized, celebrated, or questioned the ideology behind territorial expansion.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.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.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.WesternRelated: Its expansionist assumptions inform stories about settlement, conquest, and contested land.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.
KnowraManifest DestinyLinked fromLinked fromThe 47 pages that link to Manifest Destiny, each with the reason it gives.All 47Broader topic 1Related 34Narrower topic 9Compared with 3Louisiana 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.Mexican CessionRelated: Expansionist politics helped shape public support for acquiring the territory.Indian RemovalRelated: Expansionist ideology helped legitimize taking Indigenous homelands.The American RenaissanceRelated: Expansion sharpened questions of national identity and slavery that recur in the period’s writing.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.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.Western fictionRelated: Western stories have dramatized, celebrated, or questioned the ideology behind territorial expansion.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.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.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.WesternRelated: Its expansionist assumptions inform stories about settlement, conquest, and contested land.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.