Question

historians argue that the ideas of manifest destiny impacted all relations between the united states government and native americans in the 1800s. manifest destiny can best be summed up as a. the belief that the strongest civilization was meant to rule over other societies. b. the belief that people of european descent were ethnically superior to other races. c. the belief that the u.s. was meant to expand over all the land in north america. d. the belief that one country could only become wealthy at the expense of another.

Explanation:

Manifest Destiny is the 19th - century belief that the United States was destined to expand across the entire North American continent. Option A is about a civilization ruling others, which is not the core of Manifest Destiny. Option B focuses on ethnic superiority, which is not the main idea of Manifest Destiny. Option D is about a country's wealth at another's expense, which is unrelated to Manifest Destiny. Only option C matches the definition of Manifest Destiny.

Answer:

C. the belief that the U.S. was meant to expand over all the land in North America.