Justify American westward expansion in the 1840s
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The phrase "Manifest Destiny" signified the conviction that the superior institutions and culture of the United States gave Americans a God-given right, even an obligation, to spread their civilization across the entire continent. This sense of uniqueness and mission was a legacy of early Puritan utopianism, the republicanism of the Revolutionary Era, and seemingly evidenced by economic and political success. Americans felt westward expansion would extend opportunities and stability to more peoples across a wider domain.
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a. true b. false