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title: "How did manifest destiny help shape the U.S. government's policies of land acquisition?"  
description: "How did manifest destiny help shape the U.S. government's policies of land acquisition?"  
author: "camila johnson"  
published: 2018-04-04  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40674/how-did-manifest-destiny-help-shape-the-u-s-government-s-policies-of-land-acquisition  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history", "the cold war and the space race"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How did manifest destiny help shape the U.S. government's policies of land acquisition?

How did [manifest destiny](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40500/what-does-john-o-sullivan-mean-when-he-says-it-is-our-manifest-destiny-to-overspread-the-continent-allotted-by-providence) help shape the U.S. [government](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51300/what-are-the-4-theories-of-government)'s policies of land [acquisition](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2162/uk-watchdog-to-look-into-viasat-s-acquisition-of-inmarsat)?\
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