<span>establishing a democratic government.</span>
A. Don’t just accept traditional knowledge about how the natural world works—experiment and observe the results.
A state has self-government, or is part of a larger self-governing whole (like a Federal government).
A colony is ruled by an outside power, and does not have the power to make its own laws.
Because
The government viewed Cuba as a nation in need of independence. Granted, the U.S. wanted Cuba independence from Spain so that the U.S. could exert indirect political and economic control over the nation, its peoples, and its resources.
The passage of the Kansas- Nebraska Act