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Was Americans belief that the nation should expand from coast to coast?

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In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined the term 'manifest destiny' to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to inhabit North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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