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manifest destiny, Zach O.


 * > Name: || Zach ||
 * > Word: || manifest destiny ||
 * > Source: || The Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot, "Butcher and Bolt", Butcher and Bolt, page 39 ||
 * > Appropriate Definition: || noun, a future event accepted as inevitable Manifest Destiny // of the United States> ||
 * > Definition URL: || [] ||
 * > Context Sentences: || "Much of the growing American role overseas needed no guidance from Washington. It was a result of the restless Yankees' inexorable progress across the North American continent and beyond, a process dubbed **'manifest destiny'** by journalist John O'Sullivan in 1838. Many of the obstacles in the path of American expansion were summarily knocked aside by military might" (Boot, 39). ||

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