This was known as manifest destiny. Colonists believed that is was their right and destiny to complete the westward expansion.
The system of government that the Puritans used was a theocracy.
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The American Anti-Imperialist League was an organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area. The anti-imperialists opposed expansion, believing that imperialism violated the fundamental principle that just republican government must derive from "consent of the governed."
