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What was manifest destiny and how did it affect the United States?

Answer 1

What was Manifest Destiny and how did it affect the United States? Manifest Destiny was an ideology of expansion across the continent. Some even wanted to annex Canada and Mexico. It affected the US because the idea drove expansion, annexation and active movement towards the west.

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Answer 2

Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.