Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
In retrospect, it's easy to use the Manifest Destiny line, but the fact is that we expanded for the same reasons that every nation before us has sought to expand.
Oh, obviously. The Manifest Destiny line was just popular opinion, or at least, I understand it to have been. It's not like the popular opinion could influence political action, of course, which makes me think the whole idea was just propagated as much as possible in order to try to make the landgrab.