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guiding questions
question 2 of 4
\manifest destiny\ was the idea that...
a treaties made with indigenous american tribes were sacred.
b white americans possessed a divine right to live on and own indigenous land.
c white americans had a duty to bring christianity to indigenous american people.
d the u.s. government should keep the land it purchased from the french untouched.

Explanation:

Manifest destiny was a 19th-century American ideology centered on the belief that white Americans had a God-given right to expand across and take control of North American lands, displacing Indigenous peoples in the process. Option A is incorrect because manifest destiny justified breaking treaties with Indigenous tribes. Option C is a related but secondary associated idea, not the core of manifest destiny. Option D contradicts the expansionist nature of the ideology.

Answer:

B. white Americans possessed a divine right to live on and own Indigenous land.