The correct answer is by building small forts and trading post.
<em>The Portuguese established footholds in on the African coastlines by building small forts and trading post.
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After Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope and get to India to collect a ship cargo of Pepper, the Portuguese built forts and trading post in the west and east to help their ships during the long sailings. There were ports in Africa, in India, in China, and in Japan. This way, Portugal benefited more doing this than establishing permanent colonies, in its attempt to strengthen its spices trade.
Answer: The partisan press opened the door for conflicting ideas to be debated nationally.
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My answer is The Union was able to stop Confederate supplies from entering Florida.
The USA didn't want to export oil to Cuba, so instead of using the US's oil they started using crude oill from the Soviet Union, American companies in Cuba than started to refuse to refine the Soviet's oil. Then Cuba nationalized American-owned oil refineries in Cuba as a response to what was going on.