When speaking of the spread of the United States from sea to sea, people often spoke of this movement as "Manifest Destiny." By this they implied that the movement was destined by God to happen.
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The belief that the right to all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific belonged to Americans is called manifest destiny. Manifest destiny was not a specific policy, but a general notion.
== ==Belief that the US should expand "from sea to shining sea"