How did louisiana colonists live in the beginning of spanish rule as spanish colonists as french colonists as independent citizens of separate countries as americans

It was the second choice (B.) they were French colonists at the beginning of the Spanish rule

no statements but ok.

the statement that best describes the idea of manifest destiny that was used in the 19th century would be that "it was fate that the united states would continue to  expand westward," since people thought the us was "destined" to do so. 

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: