Question

What was President Polk's attitude towards the idea of Manifest Destiny? A. He was in favor of expansion but through peaceful means only. B. He was against using money to buy territory. C. He was a supporter of American territorial expansion. D. He was against territorial expansion.

Answer 1

The correct option is C
C. He was a supporter of American territorial expansion

Manifest Destiny is the belief that Americans were destined by God to conquer the continent to the Pacific Ocean. It soon came to embody the governing philosophy of the Polk administration and its ardently expansionist aims.