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A map showing the continental United States. Areas designated on the map include the original 13 colonies, the Florida Territory, the Louisiana Purchase, the Texas Annexation, Mexico, the Mexican Cession, The Oregon Territory, the Gadsden Purchase, and the British Cession of 1818. Review the map above. How did the idea of Manifest Destiny affect the U.S. border throughout the 1800s

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This moved the US Boarder West (First west than further to what we have now)

Step-by-step explanation:

Manifest Destiny is the belief that a higher power, God, wanted/told colonial Americans to stretch far west, then into the entirety of North America

(This also ignited issues with Native Americans like a match, Trail of Tears, many violent acts)

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americans pushed westward taking lands past the Appalachians and towards the west coast

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