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.
Manifest Destiny was an explanation or justification for that expansion and westward movement, or, in some interpretations, an ideology or doctrine which helped to promote the process. This article is a history of Manifest Destiny as an idea, and the influence of that idea upon American expansion. The phrase Manifest Destiny was first used primarily by Jackson Democrats after 1845 to promote the annexation of much of what is now the Western United States (the Oregon Territory, the Texas Annexation, and the Mexican Cession).