O’Sullivan’s arguments for annexation. How does he frame his support for such a move and How does he see the future of America? Solution Annexation (Latin ad, to, and nexus, joining) is the political transition of land from the control of one entity to another. In international law it is the forcible transition of one state\'s territory by another state or the legal process by which a city acquires land. O Suulivan was an American columnist and editor who used the term \"manifest destiny\" in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States. O\'Sullivan was an influential political writer and advocate for the Democratic Party at that time and served as US Minister to Portugal during the administration of President Franklin Pierce (1853–1857), but he largely faded from prominence soon thereafter. He was rescued from obscurity in the twentieth century after the famous phrase \"manifest destiny\" was traced back to him..