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From the beginning of its time, America has held the desire to expand. Manifest Destiny, the belief that the United States has a mission to spread its beliefs and culture, had held true since the formation of the country. Between 1776 and the start of the twentieth century, expansion had always been something on American’s minds. The only difference in each individual case was the place we sought and the time. Other than that, the reasons behind it were more or less very similar. Three main reasons led to annexation of new land and imperialistic dreams: the belief that we had a duty to spread our culture, the belief that it was a mission from God to spread Christianity, and finally, that we should take hold of any opportunities that pass us.
Before the late nineteenth and early twentieth century imperialistic movement, America focused mainly on expanding to the west. It began in the seventeenth century when the first white settlers wanted to look to the interior of the new land......

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