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Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the previous July, journalist John L. O'Sullivan argued in his newspaper New York Morning News that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country.
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Cultural belief of 19th-century American expansionists
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John L. O'Sullivan
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