Praxis II Citizenship

Answer: B - The concept of Manifest Destiny did not include the belief that the expansion of agriculture would stifle industrialization. To the contrary, Americans believed that expanding agriculture would encourage greater use of the nation’s new industrial resources; most of the industrial achievements of the time were primarily for the agriculture industry. During the 1840s-when the Manifest Destiny sentiment was the strongest-the United States was experiencing spikes in the birth rate and immigration rate. The country still had an economy that was primarily agrarian-based, and large families were desirable because they could run farms, which were still the best way to grow the U.S. economy at the time.