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What truly is the Manifest Destiny?

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a Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined by God, it's advocates believed to expand it's dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.

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Manifest Destiny, in U.S. history, was the belief in the supposed inevitability of the United States expanding its borders westward across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean and beyond. In the 19th century the idea of Manifest Destiny resulted in extensive territorial expansion.

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