Question

The United States acquired land in the 1800's to fulfill their "Manifest Destiny" in all of these ways EXCEPT.

A. Through war
B. Through treaties
C. through settlement
D. through inheritance
E. through the use of diplomacy

Answer 1

Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, expressed the philosophy that drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion. Manifest Destiny held that the United States was destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. So the answer is A

Answer 2

D is the answer I think