books.google.com - Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they discovered. In the United States, the British colonists who...http://books.google.com/books/about/Native_America_Discovered_And_Conquered.html?id=ccnP7tWU7hwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareNative America, Discovered And Conquered
