Rome :)
Greek is another probable answer but Rome is correct. Most of our government is influenced off them and out architecture is no different!
America represented a New World for European people, and it involves new resources that Europe had long lost, and new species and plants as well as an accessible guide and labor source in the natives. They were considered as sources of trade and new tools. So, the colonization of America represented a great opportunity that could result in the wealth of European monarchies. European conquest was part of human nature: the desire for more, for better, no matter the cost.
The Republican Party.
It was originally more progressive and anti-slavery (for example, Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican President). Over time, the Democratic Party became the more progressive party as 1) blacks shifted away from the Republican Party following the failure of Reconstruction in the South and 2) the Republican party aligned itself more with big business in later years.
