Americans used Manifest Destiny to justify what? A. a limit of immigrants entering the country. B. a warning to European countries about getting involved in American politics. C. the use of military force to solidify control of the area east of the Appalachian Mountains. D. expanding the territory of the United States to the Pacific Ocean.

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

Manifest Destiny was the 19th-century belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable, often used to support westward expansion.