McKinley sent U.S. troops into Cuba into 1898 and then, at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, justified the taking of the Spanish Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico with the argument that ...
Some people coin phrases. Journalist John L. O’Sullivan minted one this week (Dec. 27) in 1845 when he wrote in The Democratic Review that it was America’s “manifest destiny to overspread and to ...
In his single term from 1845 to 1849, President James K. Polk extended the United States from sea to shining sea. Polk maintained a “keen ability to balance the diverse desires of the nation while ...
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