The nineteenth century concept known as Manifest Destiny can best be described as

A.
the belief that America should go to war with Mexico in order to obtain new lands.
B.
the right of any new territory to apply for statehood and create its own laws.
C.
the right of all Americans to take any land from Native Americans.
D.
the belief that Americans had the right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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The correct answer is:

D. the belief that Americans had the right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century doctrine that justified American expansion across the continent, based on the belief that it was the nation's destiny to spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.