Question

What was the goal of supporters of Manifest Destiny?

A. To limit the number of immigrants coming into the United States.
B. To have the United States conquer Canada.
C. To have the United States control territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
D. To abolish slavery in the United States

Answer 1

C. to have the Unites States control territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.

Step-by-step explanation:

“... the right of our manifest destiny to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federaltive development of self government entrusted to us...."expansion westward seemed perfectly natural to many Americans in the mid-nineteenth century. Like the Massachusetts Puritans who hoped to build a "city upon a hill,” courageous pioneers believed that America had a divine obligation to stretch the boundaries of their noble republic to the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 2

C. To have the United States control territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.