Question

Why did Senator Albert J. Beveridge claim that the U.S. needed to expand trade into new overseas markets?

Answer 1

To sell Americas surplus of goods. Hope i helped. Vote up if this helped!

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Answer 2

Senator Albert J. Beveridge claimed that the U.S. needed to expand trade into new overseas markets to sell Americas surplus of goods.

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge was an American historian and US senator from Indiana. He was an intellectual leader of the Progressive Era and a biographer of Chief Justice John Marshall and President Abraham Lincoln.

In 1899 he was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate  where he backed the progressive legislation sponsored by President Theodore Roosevelt.