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It was "d. Stephen Douglas" who <span>wrote the legislation in the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, since this act was intended to avert a Civil War between the slave interests in the South and the abolitionists in the North. </span>
Expansionists justified the idea of Manifest Destiny and the acquisition of new territory because they were spreading B) Democracy. Those that supported Manifest Destiny believed that the United States' unique cultural and political traits had destined it for expansion and that this was supported by its higher ideals that had to be spread across the continent.