Read the passage from a founding document of the Virginia colony, as well as the passage from the writings of journalist John L. O’Sullivan. All that Space and Circuit of Land, . . . up into the Land throughout from Sea to Sea, West and Northwest.

–The Second Charter of Virginia,
May 23, 1609

Our manifest destiny [is] to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent.

–John L. O’Sullivan,
1845

People who shared O’Sullivan’s view believed that the United States should

avoid all entanglements with other countries.
attack any country that opposed American expansion.
spread democracy and Christian ideals westward.
avoid settling the hostile lands west of the Mississippi.