Introduction Manifest Destiny was a “term that was coined by John L. O’Sullivan who was a New York journalist in 1839” (Frederick & Bannister 56). He used this term to call for the appropriation of Texas. Eventually, this term evolved during the 19th century to express a belief that the United States was predestined to expand to North America starting from the Atlantic spanning to the Pacific. Manifest Destiny as a concept was widely used in the middle of the 19th century by the Democrats to validate the war against Mexico. However, the term or the concept was greatly opposed by the Whigs and by the 1850s the term was abandoned altogether. Imperialism on the other hand can be described as a process that commands people against their wills, and in many instances resorts to the use of force like how colonization took place in the United States (Bascara 196). Manifest destiny principles Manifest destiny expresses, “the burgeoning financial and industrial power of a nation discovering itself in possession of the power to implement its ambitions.” (Cavanaugh 455). For the American society, the two have been seen and politicized as the fight for democracy and concern for the rights of the weak and the downtrodden, with the unique insight of strengthening the model of development for the country. This has been heavily manifested in the development of foreign policies and international relations. Manifest Destiny was intensively used as the United States expanded from its original thirteen states(Youngsuk 154). In most cases, the principles of ideological diplomacy have been implicitly employed in guiding American Foreign Policy. This in effect has been opening ways to the various claims regarding the expanse of democracy in the whole world. In my study, the main thesis is that the spread of manifest destiny is a form of business imperialism and I will portray using different cases and manners of approach by the federal governments. The United States conditions The United States is a developed country with great powers over most of the developing countries. The population of the country is expanding day by day and this calls for the need to search for more resources. In search of more land and wealth, the United States acquired Alaska through Manifest Destiny. (Cavanaugh 455). This had very practical considerations that were shaping the thinking of the many in the society. It was through the realization that the situation was created and settled in which the nation could not, without disgracing itself, let go of what it had already won. (Bascara 196). In the political scene, this was not ultimate with some arguing that the country is a superpower and had the right to acquire more land and others insisting that acquiring the land would help the inhabitants to exercise democracy and enjoy the advanced and developed institutions of the country. (Youngsuk 154)). This is no different from Roosevelt’s selfish ideals of empowering the nation immediately after the great depression (Merk 245). The country is still fighting to retain its economic supremacy putting into consideration the increased expenditure. This calls for the expansive means to gain more wealth from other countries. Irrespect