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Which of the following best describes the concept of manifest destiny in the 19th-century United States?
Which of the following best describes the concept of manifest destiny in the 19th-century United States?
- The belief that American settlers were destined to expand across North America (correct)
- The belief that American settlers were destined to expand across Europe
- The belief that American settlers were destined to expand across Asia
- The belief that American settlers were destined to expand across South America
What were the three basic tenets of the concept of manifest destiny?
What were the three basic tenets of the concept of manifest destiny?
- The special virtues of the American people and their institutions, the mission of the United States to redeem and remake the East in the image of the agrarian West, and an irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty
- The special virtues of the American people and their institutions, the mission of the United States to redeem and remake the South in the image of the agrarian North, and an irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty
- The special virtues of the American people and their institutions, the mission of the United States to redeem and remake the West in the image of the agrarian East, and an irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty (correct)
- The special virtues of the American people and their institutions, the mission of the United States to redeem and remake the North in the image of the agrarian South, and an irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty
Who rejected the concept of manifest destiny?
Who rejected the concept of manifest destiny?
- John Adams and Alexander Hamilton
- George Washington and Benjamin Franklin
- Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant (correct)
- Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
What did the Whigs believe America's moral mission was?
What did the Whigs believe America's moral mission was?
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What was manifest destiny used to justify?
What was manifest destiny used to justify?
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