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 ...

However, the idea of Manifest Destiny existed well before it was put ... the U.S. control of all of what’s now coastal British Columbia. “Fifty-four forty or fight” became a slogan during ...

Donald Trump’s vision of America goes back to the 19th century and includes the imperial policies of the time. He has touted the vision of manifest destiny for the expansion of the United States.