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Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny was the name given in the1840s to an "upsurge of emotion" that crested in the 1844 campaign, a "crusade" involving expansion, slavery, trade, politics, religion, as "Young America" made the "eagle scream" and "buffalo bellow" in antebellum America. John Quincy Adams believed in "westward the course of empire" but boundaries should be first defined by treaty.

1. Paths of Empire


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