Question

The idea of Manifest Destiny meant that
A.
Native Americans had an equal claim to the lands of the West.
B.
no more European colonies would be allowed in the Americas.
C.
African Americans should be freed from slavery.
D.
the United States had the right to expand to the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 1

D. the United States had the right to expand to the Pacific Ocean.

Manifest Destiny was the 19th-century belief that the U.S. was destined—by Providence and history—to expand westward across the North American continent to the Pacific.