Historian Frederick Merk says manifest destiny always limped along because of its internal limitations and the issue of slavery, and never became a national priority of the United States. The term was used by the then-Democrats in the 1840s to justify the Mexican–American War, and it was also used to negotiate the Oregon boundary dispute. Historian Daniel Walker Howe writes, "American imperialism did not represent an American consensus it provoked bitter dissent within the national polity while the Whigs saw America's moral mission as one of democratic example rather than conquest. Historians have emphasized that "manifest destiny" was always contested many endorsed the idea, but the large majority of Whigs and many prominent Americans (such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. An irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty.The mission of the United States to redeem and remake the West in the image of the agrarian East.The special virtues of the American people and their institutions. There were three basic tenets to the concept: Manifest destiny was a cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
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