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What is manifest Destiny?

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A belief that during the 19th and early 20th centuries that America was destined by god to spread west and cover the entire continent. This belief led to many wars eventually giving the U.S control over the Philippines and Puerto Rico.

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was a widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.

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