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Manifest Destiny (1845) is the idea that God meant for the US to have all of North America. Its roots go back to the 1600s to Puritan ideas of being God’s chosen people in a promised land, just like the Jews in the Bible.
Manifest Destiny makes wars of naked conquest against Mexicans and Natives in the 1800s seem just, as the way it had to be.
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Manifest Destiny occurred in 1845, it was the idea that God wanted the United Sates to have all of North America. This made war against Mexicans and Natives. They were thrown off their lands and if they refused then they would be raped or massacred.