Question

James Polk believed in which of the following ideas?

A) The United States should not expand west of the Mississippi River.

B) The United States should negotiate with native tribes in the western territories in order to acquire land.

C) The United States should extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

D) The United States should acquire land only through peaceful compromise.

Answer 1

c)

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

C) The United States should extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Step-by-step explanation:

Former president James Polk was one of the main believers of the idea of Manifest Destiny. According to this idea, the United States had a political and divine right to extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, in order to bring the virtues of the American civilization to as much territory as possible.

James Polk believed so firmly in this idea that he thought all means to realize it were valid. He actually provoked a war with Mexico that the US won, and that resulted in the cession of most of the American Southwest, which until then was part of Mexico, to the United States.