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How did the concept of Manifest Destiny encourage Americans to move west?

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Step-by-step explanation:

Manifest Destiny and westward expansion were directly related. The term "manifest destiny" was created in 1845 in a magazine. It was the idea that Americans had a God-given and inevitable destiny of expanding their democracy and people across the continent.

With this idea, Americans had a justification and reason to move west. So, this concept of Manifest Destiny, plus some other factors, stoked and fueled United States expansion.

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The idea of Manifest Destiny influenced America's western migration by promoting it and causing it to occur quickly. Manifest Destiny was the ideology that God had given Americans the land all the way to the Pacific Ocean and that it was their right and duty to settle in it.

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