The correct answer is D.
It set up a colonial empire for the U.S. and set the U.S. on the road to empire.
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A wind sweeps gently over the trimmed hedges of Privet Drive, which lies quiet and neat under the dark sky, not a place where one would expect anything out of the ordinary to occur (Rowling 21).<span>
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