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Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
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Cultural belief of 19th-century American expansionists
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State of the Union
Annual report by the president of the United States
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James K. Polk
President of the United States from 1845 to 1849
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