Most northerners wanted to abolish slavery, any new state that would come into the nation would be considered a free state, while any new state that was brought into the South would allow slavery.
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Big Stick policy, in American history, policy popularized and named by Theodore Roosevelt that asserted U.S. domination when such dominance was considered the moral imperative. Roosevelt’s first noted public use of the phrase occurred when he advocated before the U.S. Congress increasing naval preparation to support the nation’s diplomatic objectives.
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Economic Factors:
needed cheap way to deliver goods to far away places, created roads, canals, and railroads.
costed money
Political Issues:
President Monroe vetoed bill that would have given states money to build more roads, since felt it unconstitutional.
John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay wanted the construction of roads/other methods of transportation.
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business-friendly international NGO (example: Red Cross) ENGO: environmental NGO (Greenpeace and World Wildlife Fund) GONGO: government-organized non-governmental organization (International Union for Conservation of Nature) INGO: international NGO (Oxfam)
The missionaries were motivated by belief that African natives needed the Christian message to be saved eternally, as well as feeling motivated to help the earthly well-being of the peoples in Africa as a Christian duty to help those in need.
Note that there is an implication in all of this that the European culture was superior to the African culture, and that the people of the central African rainforest were indeed in need. Missionary endeavors set up medical clinics and schools and other facilities to aid the African natives. There certainly was much good done in this way, but there also was a paternalistic attitude of the "white man's burden" to help seemingly lower human beings. (Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem "White Man's Burden" in 1899 in reference to a different imperial venture, but the thought applies here as well.)
