<span>The </span>Meiji Restoration<span> in Japan laid the groundwork for massive </span>economic<span> development, industrialization, and the building of the great power.</span>
The correct answer is: Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke out against the acquisition of the Southwest following the Mexican-American War.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
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D. A pandemic of European diseases destroyed Native American cultures before information could be gathered.
