Question

The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT:

a. Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base.
b. The use of land for settled agriculture was preferable to its use for nomadic hunting.
c. Westward expansion was both inevitable and beneficial.
d. God had selected America as a chosen land and people.
e. The ultimate extent of the American domain was to be from the tropics to the Arctic.

Answer 1

(A). Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Manifest destiny" (coined by John Sullivan in 1845) is an idea that God has destined the United States to expand its territories and dominate the whole North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Expansion of territory led to availability of more lands for farming and as such, agricultural expansion and increase in food supply. It also brought about an increase in commerce and industry.