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Which of these people was the biggest supporter of Manifest Destiny?

a. John Quincy Adams
b. Henry Clay
c. John Tyler
d. James K. Polk

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A.) John Quincy Adams

By 1843 John Quincy Adams, originally a major supporter of the concept underlying manifest destiny, had changed his mind and repudiated expansionism because it meant the expansion of slavery in Texas.
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