Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of Manifest Destiny in United States history. This ideological oddity, which is really more of a theological than a political and social concept, held that Americans were destined, perhaps by the will of God, to expand across America to the Pacific Ocean.
In other words, basically a garbage idea that was used to justify and conduct a genocide against the aboriginal inhabitants of this continent.
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