Question

“[F]reedom of conscience, freedom of person, freedom of trade and business pursuits, universality of freedom and equality. This is our high destiny, and in nature's eternal, inevitable decree of cause and effect we must accomplish it. All this will be our future history...”

The idea O'Sullivan describes in this quotation is
a. manifest destiny.
B. frontier destiny.
C. the frontier thesis.
D. manifest freedom.

Answer 1

its A. manifest destiny

Answer 2

The idea that O'Sullivan describes in this quotation is A) manifest destiny. Manifest Destiny was an idea that O'Sullivan was responsible for popularizing in the 1800s. This political theory or ideology sought for the United States to expand its borders to the Pacific Coast based upon a god given right to expansion which he called Manifest Destiny.