I don't know exactly what your looking for but, it could do with religion or different ideas of the country.
For example: Let's say that America goes to war with Russia and the Americans didn't want to go to war. The people have a differed idea from the government, meaning that the military does not have the peoples support.
Hope it helps!
Answer:
It would have been a lot smaller and a large part of north america would have been populated by the french
Explanation:
the land was bought from the french and included most of the now midwestern united states.
Answer:
Imperial expansion was largely triggered by the quest of the imperial nations to want to know more about the unknown world and envoirment. The imperial nations took sea-faring adventures in order to reach places they never had knowledge of and in so doing were able to colonize these places. Also, the Fear of going beyond their known envoirments left the colonized nation limited in their knowledge of the world at large making them easier to colonize.
