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The idea that the U.S. was foreordained to become an expanding nation and a transcontinental power was called?

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The movement, coined “manifest destiny” in the mid-1840s, justified expansion with a sense of mission and purpose, viewing American expansion as inevitable, just, and divinely foreordained.
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