Because the booming economy had created a larger black middle class
Montezuma was too trusting and believed Cortez was a god just like the other Aztecs believed, if he wouldn't have been so trusting and fought the newcomers immediately the Aztec empire wouldn't have fallen to Cortez
Gandhi is considered the most influential person mainly because he was one of the main reasons for India's independence and also because he fought for equality almost certainly like Martin Luther king
A) They feared it would challenge their rights to own slaves and impose hurt tariffs.