The ethic that it is the right and duty of whites to expand wherever they needed to increase their prosperity, no matter the cost to those killed, displaced, or exploited in the process, is called
A) Manifest destiny
B) Manifest ownership
C) Latent destiny
D) Latent ownership

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Manifest Destiny is the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. It was often used to justify the displacement of Native Americans and other groups.

The Ethic That It Is the Right and Duty of Whites