<span>The question is asking us whether it is true that in a totalitarian government, the authorities want complete obedience and total submission. This is true - a totalitarian regime means that the involvement of the citizens has to be complete - "total". So they have to devote all their time and efforts to the state and to obey it completely.</span>
I think that westward expansion made America look power hangry and land hangry, also ruthless because of the native Americans they were forcing out of their Holmes.