Answer - A - Frederick Edwin Church and Thomas Cole's beautiful landscape paintings typified the idea of a divinely-sanctioned Manifest Destiny.
Key Takeaway: Although there was no official position on American expansion, Manifest Destiny was the very American belief in inevitable U.S. expansion to the West. A large part of this was the belief that Americans would bring democracy and civilization to the Native Americans of the West, who were thought to be ignorant and inferior. American painters in the Romantic period often attempted to capture this idea with brilliantly-rendered landscapes of the American West.
