Parks in East Alton include: Kutter Park (1), Van Preter Park (2). Display/hide their locations on the map. Court: Madison County - Probation & Court Services Department- East Alton Satellite Of (211 North Shamrock Street).
Manifest Destiny. noun. 1  A policy of imperialistic expansion defended as necessary or benevolent. 2  often Manifest Destiny The 19th-century doctrine that the United States had the right and duty to expand throughout the North American continent.
But by presenting the concept of westward expansion as something of a religious mission, the idea of manifest destiny struck a chord. Though the phrase manifest destiny may seem to have captured the public mood of the mid-19th century, it was not viewed with universal approval.Many at the time thought it was simply putting pseudo-religious polish on blatant avarice and conquest..anifest destiny was a term that came to describe a widespread belief in the middle of the 19th century that the United States had a special mission to expand westward.