Question

In which two ways did the widespread belief in manifest destiny influence US in the 1800s?

Answer 1

Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, expressed the philosophy that drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion. Manifest Destiny held that the United States was destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. Lousiana Purchase and the Texas independence were also big parts of it