This newspaperman coined the term “Manifest Destiny”.
- Horace Greely
- John O’Sullivan
- Joseph Pulitzer
- William Hearst
John O’Sullivan. In 1845 he wrote an article urging the U.S. to annex Texas which said it is “our manifest destiny to overspread the continent. . .”
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