Northerners opposed the act because they thought it was a plot to turn this land into slave states.
It was the Louisiana purchase.
C.The Whigs and Democrats adopted an antislavery platform.
Senator Beveridge used economy, political and religious motives to build his argument that America should imperialize.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Under the insight of many researchers and scholars, Americans main motive from the war was humanitarian. Senator Beveridge used economy, political and religious motives to build his argument that America should imperialize.
With his skill in oratory, Beveridge reached the crowd to make them understand he need of imperialism. He believed, the country needed to get access into raw materials and spread Christianity and western ideas around the world.
He believed the economic, ethnocentric and religious and political ways with military would take the country to better living and standard and for better development.
