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1. (Close Reading) What does this document suggest about why America pursued

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From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the credo of Manifest Destiny:

• advocated the sovereignty of the American people,
• established a vision of the United States exercising its domination on North America from coast to coast,
• and provided a political foundation that justified a continental expansion.

The Monroe doctrine of 1823 also prompted Washington to consider Latin America as its reserved domain from which any European actor must be excluded. The concept of the American Empire was popularized for the first time in the media under the presidency of James K. Polk, at the time of the outbreak of the Mexican American War.

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