The answer is either A. or C, but I believe that the answer would be A.
B. Puerto Rico.
Don't think Cuba
Answer:
identifies the political legitimacy,
The phrase was first employed by John L. O'Sullivan in an article on the annexation of Texas published in the July-August 1845<span> edition of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, which he edited. The term manifest destiny originated in the</span>1840s<span>.</span>