Answer:Manifest Destiny, in U.S. history, the supposed inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States westward to the Pacific and beyond. Before the American Civil War (1861–65), the idea of Manifest Destiny was used to validate continental acquisitions in the Oregon Country, Texas, New Mexico, and California. The purchase of Alaska after the Civil War briefly revived the concept of Manifest Destiny, but it most evidently became a renewed force in U.S. foreign policy in the 1890s, when the country went to war with Spain, annexed Hawaii, and laid plans for an isthmian canal across Central America.
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A) To indicate that the paragraph will present a contrast to the previous one.
Explanation:
The word “alternatively” usually means another option, another possibility.
So, it wouldn’t signal that the paragraph would give another example of a function. It also wouldn’t suggest that functions are more important, or to reveal the tone of the text is becoming more serious.
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True. The fact that they were in groups makes them a civilization. However, the criteria for civilization is fluid and I would need more information from the lesson to give a definitive answer.