Please define "Manifest Destiny", and discuss the role of government and business in spurring westward...?

Question

migration during the early to mid-1800s.

Answer 1

The doctrine or belief prevalent in the 19th century that the United States had the God-given right to expand into and possess the whole of the North American continent.

Answer 2

Manifest Destiny: Sort of a  mini-religion in which people believed that America would spread from sea to shining sea.