You mean "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants". It means a revolution should take place once government gets too big or they begin to infringe on the free will's of people. Which means, Patriots and Tyrants will die if it means to maintain Liberty.
At the turn of the 20th Century, the United States was on the rise.
Spain was the last remaining European power in the Western Hemisphere and the US was eager to prove it was top dog.
So, it went to war to kick Spain out of the Western Hemisphere.
It was very much looking for an excuse to fight Spain.
Answer:
It made city-states ununited, since they formed independently from each other. City-States were constantly fighting and going to war with each other.
Explanation:
Since city-states had distance between them, they adopted different lifestyles from one another; their economies depended on different recourses because their terrain was different from one another (ex: states by the coast would often fish as a main source of income and food). The mountanous terrain of Greece only separated city-states further and encouraged the independent growth of city-states. This meant Greece was ununited and city-states would constantly go to war with each other.
Made them unhappy I would think.