Which of the following was not an example of the us government's contribution to achieving manifest destiny?
a. purchasing territories from foreign lands
b. carrying out wars to force natives off their land c. ignoring court orders protecting native rights of their lands
d. trading us claims to land in africa in exchange for lands in the americas

joseph stalin's cult of personality became a prominent part of soviet culture in december 1929, after a lavish celebration for stalin's 50th birthday.[answer:

explanation:

mapmaking. cartography had been an art form for many years, but it wasn’t until the renaissance when ptolemy’s ancient system of latitude and longitude was rediscovered that mapmakers were able to make surprisingly accurate and useful maps.