What describes the idea that it was gods plan for the united states to expand across the continent

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Elena Kim

13 June, 16:22

What describes the idea that it was gods plan for the united states to expand across the continent

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Rylee Jennings · Answer 1

I think that what you're looking for is Manifest Destiny, the idea that it was natural, required and proper of the settlers to expand across the continent.

Some connected this to God (that is, that God devised this expansion as His plan), but God is not always necessarily connected to this idea.