Among the many other Americans who opposed the whole idea of a "manifest destiny" for the United State were all of the following groups EXCEPT
A) antislavery advocates who opposed the acquisition of more land because they were certain new lands meant new slave states.
B) some proslavery advocates who wanted Texas to become a slave slate but were afraid that other incorporated lands, such as California and Oregon, might become free states and shift political power away from the white slaveholding regions.
C) most Protestant leaders and missionaries who believed that U.S. control of the new lands would have no effect in ensuring that a Protestant United States, rather than a Catholic Mexico, would control the continent.
D) many residents of the lands from Texas to California who did not want to become part of the United States at all for Hispanic cultural or ethnic reasons.
Answer: C
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