Economic growth can reduce poverty by doing all of the above. Growth benefits all aspects of society--public and private--and often occurs in areas where there is lots of competition.
Economic and political factors, the U.S. was influenced to practice imperialism, particularly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
You must mean election of 1824 , well to keep it short John Quincy Adams was friends with Henry Clay who was speaker of the house which many thought that he struck a deal with him to persuade the Congress in voting for Adams. Hence the "Corrupt Bargain"
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