C - Southerners feared it would lead to the end of slavery
to provide a place for merchants to sell goods
One good reason to proove that Theodore Roosvelt was a heavy-handed imperialist is that He had been hurting long-term relations with Latin America as they resented US involvement, due to national interests. He used an massive interventionism, regardless of the relations of other countries, in order to prove the place of America, its role, in the world.
Roosevelt Corollary, amendment to the Monroe Doctrine, considered as a self-appointed police.
The United States finally collapsed into a Civil War because southern states began to secede from the Union upon Lincoln's election to the office of President. Lincoln did not tolerate these secessions, which he deemed illegal.
Hey, politics aside just look at the statistical bureau, we are one of the heavily taxed countries. Statistics over opinions, of course