HELP PAST DUE 6 MIN !! The phrase “Manifest Destiny” was first used in 1845 by John O’Sullivan, a New York newspaper editor. What did he mean by it was the United States’ “manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent”?

Well in order to know what he exactly meant we first need to know what the words "manifest" and "destiny" mean. Manifest means to display or show and destiny means fate. Therefore when he said it was the United States' manifest destiny, he meant that it was supposed to happen that way for the country to get so big. The people spread so fast across the country and acquired many lands and property.

Explanation:

answer: they arrived in new york.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: