In the1840s, the term Manifest Destiny was used to justify the United States' westward expansion. This expansion took place in areas like Texas and Oregon. There was a belief that Americans had a mission which was divinely inspired to spread their democracy to the less fortunate. The less fortunate consisted of Native Americans and other non-Europeans.
The phrase "manifest destiny" first came in the 1840's, which was primarily used by Jackson democrats, with annexations to expand territory and spread its form of democracy to Oregon territory, Texas Annexation, and the Mexican Cession, most of what is now the Western United States. This political catch phrase of the nineteenth century soon became a standard historical