Question

Which statement best describes the concept of Manifest Destiny?

It was the group that Lewis and Clark took to explore the American West.

It was a belief that it was America's right to expand and settle from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

It was the philosophy behind Andrew Jackson's decisions to dissolve the Second Bank of the United States.

It was the trail American Indians took west to resettle on government-sanctioned reservations.

Answer 1

"It was a belief that it was America's right to expand and settle from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean."

Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century idea that the United States was destined and justified to expand across the North American continent.