Americans used Manifest Destiny to justify what?

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a limit on the number of immigrants entering the country

a warning to European countries about getting involved in American politics

the use of military force to solidify control of the area east of the Appalachian Mountains

expanding the territory of the United States to the Pacific Ocean

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The correct response is:

expanding the territory of the United States to the Pacific Ocean.

Manifest Destiny was a philosophical and political doctrine that held that the expansion of the United States across the American continent was both justified and inevitable.