The nineteenth century concept known as Manifest Destiny can best be described as A. the belief that Americans had the right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific. B. the belief that America should go to war with Mexico in order to obtain new lands. C. the right of any new territory to apply for statehood and create its own laws. D. the right of all Americans to take any land from Native Americans.

Aguiding principle of the national response framework is that: a. response partners use nonstandard structures to allow for flexible and scalable responses. b. unity of effort results when responding agencies are willing to relinquish their authorities. c. effective partnership relies on engaging all elements of the whole community. d. readiness to act encourages response partners to self-dispatch to an incident scene.