What Is Manifest Destiny

What is Manifest Destiny?

A) nineteenth-century white Americans' belief that they had a right and a duty to occupy the North American continent from coast to coast
B) seventeenth-century Europeans' belief that they were destined to found a new land upon which to live out God's principles
C) eighteenth-century white Americans' belief that they should "bring the light of scientific thought" to native peoples throughout the "uncivilized" world
D) seventeenth-century evangelical White Americans' belief that they were destined to spread Christianity to Native Americans