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How and why did the ideal of manifest destiny and the outcome of the Mexican-American War lead to U.S. expansion to the Pacific Ocean?

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the United States had the providential right to expand to the Pacific Ocean. In 1845 the U.S. annexed the Republic of Texas, which had won de facto independence from Mexico in the Texas Revolution

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