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Which belief suggested that the united states and it citizens had the right and duty to spread democracy across the continent and fill the land from coast to coast

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Manifest Destiny. It wasn't so much the belief that democracy should be spread as it was the believe that Americans were entitled to the entire continent.

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This belief was known as Manifest Destiny

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