The correct answer is (3) acquiring Texas and California.
The doctrine of Manifest Destiny was an ideology during the 19th century that expressed the belief that the United States of America was destined to expand its frontiers from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. This belief was used to justify the acquisition of territory and it was based on the notion that the United States of America was responsible for the expansion of modern civilization and progress, with its technological and scientific developments, to new lands. Therefore, according to this perspective, the USA not only had the right to expand but it was a responsibility to do so in the name of progress. For these reasons, supporters of this doctrine agreed on acquiring Texas and California since eventually acquiring them was a natural step in order to fulfill the goal of achieving the Pacific Ocean and taking Western civilization to these lands.
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania comprises the Northeast region of the United States.
The key characteristics of its people include:
1. highly diverse ethnicity
2. politically liberal
3. home to many religious groups
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These acts were a pair of acts that were passed by the 90th US Congress in 1968. They provided the Governor of the U.S. Islands and the Governor of Guam to be elected properly (rather than appointed as previously).
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi. However, France only controlled a small fraction of this area, most of it inhabited by American Indians; for the majority of the area, what the United States bought was the "preemptive" right to obtain Indian lands by treaty or by conquest, to the exclusion of other colonial powers.
I would say it is because they held Jerusalem in captivity
