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PRIMARY SOURCE 1
I Will Go West, a song from 1875
PRIMARY SOURCE 2
John L. O'Sullivan and "Manifest Destiny" 1845
"Our manifest destiny [is] to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions."
This quote is the first time that the phrase "Manifest Destiny" was ever used. John L. O'Sullivan did not come up with the idea of Manifest Destiny, but he gave the idea a name.
PRIMARY SOURCE 3
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way - painted by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze in 1860
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A quote from the Democratic Review, 1845
Texas has been absorbed into the Union as the inevitable fulfillment of the general law which is rolling our population westward.... It was disintegrated from Mexico in the natural course of events, by a process perfectly legitimate on its own part, blameless on ours....
California will, probably next fall away from...Mexico...The Anglo-Saxon foot is already on its borders.... All this without agency of our government, without responsibility of our people--in the natural flow of events, the spontaneous working of principles....
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