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Which statement explains one of the motivations behind Manifest Destiny?

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"And that claim is by the right ... to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which providence has given us. ..."

Step-by-step explanation:

Manifest Destiny is the idea that the colonists of the United States were divinely favored to expand westward to the Pacific in order to spread her ideas of liberty, freedom, opportunity, and godliness.

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