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.
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.
