Christie Hacket Manifest Destiny 2/9/04 Between the years of 1845 and 1848, the United States gained more than 1.2 million square miles of land, an increase of more than sixty percent, mainly due to inspiration from manifest destiny. Manifest Destiny was the belief that many Americans used to justify their expansion west and the removal of every person in their way of doing this. The idea of manifest destiny, first presented by John L. O'Sullivan, described Americans' views that …showed first 75 words of 719 total…

…showed last 75 words of 719 total…out space, the new final frontier. The recent mission to mars and money spent is a clear portrayal of manifest destiny today. We have no reason but that it is there for this new move into the sky, just as Americans in the 1840s had no reason but that it was there to move westward and with the idea of manifest destiny as a justification, they believed that this move westward was well worth it.