<span> It depends on your perspective. To the Native </span>Americans<span>, it was the beginning of an end. Their lives will be changed forever by their contact with the fur traders, soldiers, and missionaries that follow in the wake of the Lewis and Clark expedition.</span>
All 13 were needed to pass those.
<span>1. By water across the Mediterranean,
2. by land to the red sea or Persian gulf,
3. by water to India and China</span>
Americans who advocated annexation evinced a variety of motivations: desire for commercial opportunities in Asia, concern that the Filipinos were incapable of self-rule, and fear that if the United States did not take control of the islands, another power (such as Germany or Japan) might do so.
